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13Dec

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Environment, USA

A Risky Gamble at Diablo Canyon

BY GREG M. SCHWARTZ Diablo Canyon Nuclear Power Plant, San Luis Obispo County, CA. Photo: Diablo Canyon Decommissioning Panel. Environmental groups concerned about cost and safety issues at the Diablo Canyon nuclear plant in San Luis Obispo County on California’s central coast thought they’d scored a big win in 2018 when a Joint Proposal was approved by the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC) to retire the aging plant by 2025. But like a zombie, Diablo Canyon’s operating life was resurrected until at least 2030 this past summer when California Governor Gavin Newsom rammed a last-minute bill through the California legislature to keep the plant going. Michael Peck – Diablo Canyon’s senior resident safety inspector from 2007-2012 – t...

Who wrote the Balfour Declaration and why: The World War I Connection

12Dec

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Who wrote the Balfour Declaration and why: The World War I Connection

Posted by: John Phoenix CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG OCTOBER 24, 2017 BALFOUR DECLARATION, FIRST WORLD WAR, HISTORY, LEOPOLD AMERY, LOUIS BRANDEIS, ROTHSHILD, WWI. (L-R) Chaim Weizmann, future president of Israel, with Louis Brandeis, US Supreme Court Justice, in Palestine, 1919. The two were instrumental in obtaining the Balfour Declaration, a British document that many feel was a critical step in the establishment of Israel. Zionists’ promise that they would get the U.S. to join Britain in “the Great War” was the enticement. By Alison Weir, excerpted from Against Our Better Judgment: The Hidden History of How the U.S. Was Used to Create Israel. Print or download a PDF of this article. Most analysts consider WWI a pointless conflict that res...

12Dec

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USA

The Permanent Disaster Economy

BY KEVIN GOSZTOLA https://www.youtube.com/embed/6u9xj7dYOzw Order a copy of Atomic Days: The Untold Story of the Most Toxic Place in America from the CounterPunch Store. Kevin Goztola is the managing editor of Shadow Proof and curates The Dissenter Newsletter. You can follow him on Twitter @kgosztola.

12Dec

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, ZIO-NAZI

Fascism: Nazi Style

Fascism: Israeli Style BY MELVIN GOODMAN Photograph Source: eddiedangerous – CC BY 2.0 Israelis dismiss charges of “apartheid against Palestinians” as anti-Semitic propaganda, but Benjamin Netanyahu’s new government will confirm the apartheid nature of the regime, and will provide hints of fascism, Israeli-style. Netanyahu is not a fascist, but he is a racist and he is considering appointing to his government people who are dangerous racists. No government in Israel over the past seven decades has had government appointees so alien to the ideals that accompanied the creation of Israel. The new minister for national security (formerly internal security) will be Itamar Ben Gvir, who will control the Border Patrol units in the West Bank that have partici...

Sex, the Culture Wars and a Republican Congress

12Dec

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USA

Sex, the Culture Wars and a Republican Congress

BY DAVID ROSEN Photograph Source: Kevin Dooley – CC BY 2.0 Netflix is currently running the movie, Loving, a dramatization of the true historical drama of the interracial love affair and marriage of Richard and Mildred Loving. The film is set in in mid-1950s thru mid-‘60s Virginia and depicts the couples’ friendship and love. It also shows that their sexual relationship was accepted by their respective families and immediate community. Nevertheless, the movie makes clear that their 1956 marriage was condemned; they were arrested, and Mrs. Loving jailed. In 1967, a unanimous Supreme Court found Virginia’s — and other state — laws prohibiting interracial marriage unconstitutional, thus acknowledging marriage as a fundamental right. The decision had significant c...

Mexico’s Left Takes to the Street, Celebrates Achievements

12Dec

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Mexico

Mexico’s Left Takes to the Street, Celebrates Achievements

BY W. T. WHITNEY Photograph Source: Eneas De Troya – CC BY 2.0 “Sometimes there are revolutions but people keep on thinking the same way. But now we are seeing a peacetime transformation process and there is a change of mentality … I said yesterday that we are winning the battle against racism, classism, discrimination. This is not about material things, not about welfare programs. There’s been a change of mentality”. Mexican President Andrés Manuel López Obrador (AMLO) was commenting on events of November 27, which was the fourth anniversary of his taking office. AMLO and his Moreno Party administration had staged a march and then a rally in the Zócalo plaza in Mexico City. They sought to demonstrate the Mexican people’s support for what AMLO calls Mexico’s ...

In the Netherlands, a Discriminatory Algorithm has Impoverished Thousands of Families

12Dec

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Europe

In the Netherlands, a Discriminatory Algorithm has Impoverished Thousands of Families

BY ALEXIA EYCHENNE Photograph Source: F.Eveleens – CC BY 3.0 Aided by an algorithm, the Dutch tax office has plunged into distress tens of thousands of families – in particular, foreign-born mothers, in wrongfully demanding from them staggering sums. The state is proving incapable of setting things right. Rotterdam. Each day, Sabrina Sliep picks up her telephone to listen to the same despairing stories. There are families evicted from their residence, today camping with relatives or friends, mothers who work two jobs to keep their heads above water, parents who struggle with depression. Personal trajectories broken one day by a letter from the tax office and which remain fractured. “Some need counselling for what action to take, others just cry and want to be listened to...

Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West

12Dec

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China

Xi vs Trudeau: How China is Rewriting History with the Colonial West

BY RAMZY BAROUD Photograph Source: Benjamin Vander Steen – CC BY 2.0 Though brief, the exchange between Chinese President Xi Jinping and Canadian Prime Minister Justin Trudeau on the sidelines of the G20 summit in Indonesia on November 16 has become a social media sensation. Xi, assertive if not domineering, lectured the visibly apprehensive Trudeau about the etiquette of diplomacy. This exchange can be considered another watershed moment in China’s relationship with the West. “If there was sincerity on your part,” the Chinese President told Trudeau, “then we shall conduct our discussion with an attitude of mutual respect, otherwise there might be unpredictable consequences.” At the end of the awkward conversation, Xi was the first to walk away, leaving Trud...

Inequality Kills. But We Can Stop the Killing

12Dec

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USA

Inequality Kills. But We Can Stop the Killing

BY SAM PIZZIGATI Photograph by Nathaniel St. Clair Over a half-century ago, back in the mid-1960s, books about poverty abounded. But publishers paid relatively little attention to wealth’s concentration. A generation earlier, Americans had obsessed about grand private fortunes. By late mid-century, that obsession no longer excited either the media or the public. That would all soon change, particularly after Ronald Reagan’s 1980 election. “Rich people” would suddenly reemerge as a cultural phenomenon worthy of ample attention. In 1982, the editors at Forbes magazine even started annually profiling America’s 400 richest. Serious books about the growing maldistribution of America’s income and wealth would, in short order, once again begin appearing. In 2014, one in...

Lula Da Silva’s Election is a Victory for the World

12Dec

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Brazil

Lula Da Silva’s Election is a Victory for the World

BY DEREK ROYDEN Image by Rafaela Biazi. On October 30th, Brazilians voted in a presidential runoff election that was won by Luiz ‘Lula’ Ignacio Da Silva. It was a victory by the narrowest of margins, although in fairness, the president elect’s opponent had the clear support of the federal highway patrol, which reportedly set hundreds of roadblocks in areas of the country that had supported the former president in the first round of voting. It was an election with massive stakes, perhaps the most important of 2022 in any country, a vote that, in the best-case scenario, will impact not only Brazil but the whole world, especially in terms of the unfolding climate emergency. As Brazil controls the largest part of the Amazon region, the fate of the region is in its go...