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Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist and Ageist: So Why Do Some Progressives Support It?

23Jul

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Politics

Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist and Ageist: So Why Do Some Progressives Support It?

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Navajo children are especially vulnerable to uranium exposure and among the least protected. (Photo: Phil Darnell/Wikimedia Commons) I am sure that certain Democratic senators such as Cory Booker and Sheldon Whitehouse, who are reasonably progressive on a host of social issues, would not considers themselves racist, sexist or ageist. Nuclear power is all three of these things, yet Booker, Whitehouse and a number of others on the Democratic left, support nuclear power with almost fervent evangelism. Let’s start with racism. The fuel for nuclear power plants comes from uranium, which must be mined. The majority of those who have mined it in this country — and would again under new bills such as the ‘International Nuclear Energy Act of 2022’ forwarded by...

Nuclear Power is Not the Solution to Climate Change

23Jul

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Russia, USA

Nuclear Power is Not the Solution to Climate Change

BY KIM FRIEDMAN Photo by Frédéric Paulussen We must think holistically about what constitutes “clean energy” when we consider climate change investments and our energy future. President Biden’s recent announcement of his $6 billion effort to save “distressed” nuclear (fission) power plants is misguided and short-sighted. Although reducing carbon emissions is critical to slowing the pace of climate change, it must not be our only litmus test for moving toward a “clean” energy future, similarly to how our overall health cannot be measured solely by our blood pressure or weight. In the case of nuclear power, we must consider its high cost compared to renewable energy sources, such as wind and solar. According to Climate Nexus, the minimum cost per megawatt hour to build ...

Beyond Crisis: The Possibilities and Growing Challenges in Building a Left Asian American Politics

23Jul

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Beyond Crisis: The Possibilities and Growing Challenges in Building a Left Asian American Politics

BY SUDIP BHATTACHARYA Image by Jason Leung. This June marked the fortieth anniversary of the murder of Vincent Chin, a Chinese American man beaten to death by two white men in Detroit. The two white men who attacked Chin, while Chin was out celebrating at a bar with friends, did so believing he was Japanese. At the time, much like China now, Japan was viewed as the major economic competitor of the U.S., and therefore, the main reason for the economic downturn in cities like Detroit. Aside from the fact that Japan wasn’t the main reason for why there was another U.S. economic recession, Chin had as much control over the machinations of global capitalist order as any individual working person, which was none. “They made him a scapegoat,” said Annie Tan, Chin’s cous...

Shared Values and Fist Bump Geopolitics: Biden’s Blurred Vision of Human Rights

23Jul

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Human Rights, Saudi Arabia, USA

Shared Values and Fist Bump Geopolitics: Biden’s Blurred Vision of Human Rights

BY RICHARD FALK Photograph Source: Saudi Press Agency – CC BY 4.0 When the U.S. Government at the highest level criticized Michelle Bachelet, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, because she went to China on a mission to develop opportunities for cooperation with respect to the protection of human rights. The mission had been carefully prepared months earlier by UN staff that had visited China and negotiated the itinerary of the visit, which took occurred in May of this year, it seemed a breakthrough in the sense of a major country opening itself up to this kind of scrutiny with respect to its human rights record. High officials in Washington let it be known in advance that they considered the trip ‘a mistake,’ and expressed consternation that its hyped allegatio...

Palestine: The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame

23Jul

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Human Rights, Palestine Affairs, UN, West Bank, ZIO-NAZI

Palestine: The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame

The Shameful UN ‘List of Shame’: Equating between the Israeli Perpetrator and the Palestinian Victim BY RAMZY BAROUD Image by Ömer Yıldız. “We regret we failed to protect you.” This was part of a statement issued by United Nations human rights experts on July 14, urging the Israeli government to release Palestinian prisoner Ahmad Manasra. Only 14 years old at the time of his arrest and torture by Israeli forces, Manasra is now 20 years old. His case is a representation of Israel’s overall inhumane treatment of Palestinian children. The experts’ statement was forceful and heartfelt. It accused Israel of depriving young Manasra “of his childhood, family environment, protection and all the rights he should have been guaranteed as a child.” It referred...

22Jul

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Saudi Arabia, USA

A Gratuitous Insult in Jeddah

BY JOHN WHITBECK Photograph Source: The White House – Public Domain The most quoted words from the speech which President Biden read on July 16 while seated at a table in Jeddah with the leaders of eight autocracies (the six GCC monarchies, Egypt and Jordan) and the interim prime minister of one dysfunctional remnant of American regime change (Iraq) was: “We will not walk away and leave a vacuum to be filled by China, Russia or Iran. And we’ll seek to build on this moment with active, principled American leadership. The United States is not going anywhere.” In light of all the chaos, death and destruction which the United States has wreaked on the region over the past two decades, many in the region — and even at the table — might have wondered whether this pronouncement shou...

22Jul

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Brazil

Brazil, Amazon, World: Being Black

BY JEAN WYLLYS – JULIE WARK Photograph Source: Fábio Rodrigues Pozzebom/ABr – http://www.agenciabrasil.gov.br/media/imagens/2009/01/26/1006FP6469.jpg/view – CC BY 3.0 br Census, or “race-colour” categories in Brazil supposedly cover skin tones ranging from very fair to very dark (broadly speaking, from branco (white), pardo (brown), and preto (black), to indígena (native), whatever colour that might be), in such a way that almost 99% of the population is “white”, “brown”, and “black” (in that order, of course), and the census uses the terms “colour” and “race” interchangeably. Naturally, there are other factors at work, like age, gender, region, and socioeconomic status, so a light-skinned pardo person with a well-paying job...

22Jul

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USA

Nuclear Power is Racist, Sexist and Ageist: So Why Do Some Progressives Support It?

BY LINDA PENTZ GUNTER Navajo children are especially vulnerable to uranium exposure and among the least protected. (Photo: Phil Darnell/Wikimedia Commons) I am sure that certain Democratic senators such as Cory Booker and Sheldon Whitehouse, who are reasonably progressive on a host of social issues, would not considers themselves racist, sexist or ageist. Nuclear power is all three of these things, yet Booker, Whitehouse and a number of others on the Democratic left, support nuclear power with almost fervent evangelism. Let’s start with racism. The fuel for nuclear power plants comes from uranium, which must be mined. The majority of those who have mined it in this country — and would again under new bills such as the ‘International Nuclear Energy Act of 2022’ forwarded by...

Confronting “Policy Murder” and the Rising Violence of the Right

22Jul

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Politics, USA

Confronting “Policy Murder” and the Rising Violence of the Right

BY STAN COX Priti Gulati Cox. On Juneteenth weekend, tens of thousands of people walked up Pennsylvania Avenue toward the U.S. Capitol as part of the epically titled Poor People’s and Low-Wage Workers’ Assembly and Moral March on Washington and to the Polls. (Priti Gulati Cox and I traveled via Amtrak from Kansas to join in.) Although we were following the footsteps of a mob that had stormed the Capitol seventeen months earlier, this march embodied the polar opposite worldview. At the rally ending the march, Poor People’s Campaign co-chair Rev. William J. Barber II made that clear, saying that the event was not a violent insurrection but rather “a resurrection” of people power against violence. Like its namesake led by Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968, the P...

Biden’s Middle East Trip Shows His Disregard For Journalists

22Jul

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Middle East, Saudi Arabia, USA

Biden’s Middle East Trip Shows His Disregard For Journalists

BY SAM CARLINER Image by AbsolutVision. Joe Biden is visiting Saudi Arabia and Israel, two countries whose governments have made headlines for murdering journalists. The press in the United States has scrutinized the trip for how it lets the kingdom of Saudi Arabia off the hook for the high profile murder of Washington Post columnist Jamal Khashoggi. Though Israel has received less scrutiny for its history of targeting journalists, the government recently faced pushback from international media after its military’s targetted assasination of Shireen Abu Akleh, a trailblazing Palestinian journalist for Al Jazeera and an American citizen. This trip demonstrates that while officials of the Biden administration often pay lip service in support of press freedom, they w...