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11Jul

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Japan

Japan: Not responsible

By: beyondnuclearinternational Japanese Supreme Court exonerates government from blame for Fukushima nuclear disaster Statement by attorney Kimiko Fukutake, published by Citizens’ Nuclear Information Center On June 17, 2022, the Supreme Court of Japan put an end to the four lawsuits filed by the evacuees of the Fukushima nuclear disaster in Fukushima, Gunma, Chiba, and Ehime prefectures. The sole point of dispute in these lawsuits was whether the Japanese government, which did not exert regulatory authority on the utility company, Tokyo Electric Power Company Holdings (TEPCO), for the implementation of measures against tsunamis, is liable to compensate for damages according to Paragraph 1, Article 1 of the Law Concerning State Liability for Compensation. The top cou...

Radioactivity Under the Sand: The Buried Waste From French Nuclear Tests in Algeria

11Jul

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Algeria, Environment, France, Human Rights

Radioactivity Under the Sand: The Buried Waste From French Nuclear Tests in Algeria

BY JEAN-MARIE COLLIN AND PATRICE BOUVERET The Hoggar massif by Xenus06/Creative Commons. The Hoggar massif is located in the west of the Algerian Sahara. Prehistoric men have left stunning rock carvings there. The men of the 20th century left nuclear waste. Between 1960 and 1996, France carried out 17 nuclear tests in Algeria and 193 in French Polynesia. In Algeria, atmospheric and underground tests were carried out at the Reggane and In Ekker sites, in an atmosphere of secrecy and conflict between an Algerian nation under construction and a colonial power seeking strategic autonomy. A majority of the tests – 11 – were carried out after the Evian agreements (18 March 1962), which established Algeria’s independence. It was not until the 1990s that the first independent stud...

Marx, Spinoza, and the Political Implications of Contemporary Psychiatry

11Jul

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Literature

Marx, Spinoza, and the Political Implications of Contemporary Psychiatry

BY BRUCE E. LEVINE Spinoza and the Rabbis by Samuel Hirszenberg (1907) – Public Domain Simple logic tells us that those atop a societal hierarchy will provide rewards for professionals—be they clergy or psychiatrists—who promote an ideology that maintains the status quo, and that the ruling class will do everything possible to manipulate the public to believe that the social-economic-political status quo is natural. If a population believes that its financial and emotional suffering are caused not by social-economic-political variables but instead by individual defects—be it noncompliance with religious dogma or faulty biochemistry—this “individual-defect” belief system can be a more powerful and less expensive way of maintaining the status quo than a heavily a...

Crisis in Cuba Requires End of US Blockade Now

11Jul

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Cuba, Human Rights, USA

Crisis in Cuba Requires End of US Blockade Now

BY TOM WHITNEY Image by Ricardo IV Tamayo. Friends of socialist Cuba like good news about that country. Now bad news has its use. Grief and hardship currently are such that, clearly, the U.S. economic blockade of Cuba must end at once. The harsh details, appearing below, testify to potential destabilization in Cuba, danger to Cuba’s socialist project, and the nefarious role of the blockade. A major mobilization against the blockade is due. The need for action is obvious. The blockade, a 60-year-old relic of history, places few heavy demands on the U.S. public. No governmental funding is required. The Treasury Department issues fines and presidents make ritualistic declarations. People dodge travel restrictions. It’s a slow-motion affair. Distracted pro-Cuba activists may lose...

From Turtle Island to Palestine: ‘The Catastrophe’ is Ongoing

11Jul

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Literature, Palestine Affairs

From Turtle Island to Palestine: ‘The Catastrophe’ is Ongoing

Late Palestinian intellectual Ghassan Kanafani. (Photo: via as-Safir) By Benay Blend In the run-up to the elections, Joe Biden declared that what unites the United States and Israel goes beyond the exchange of weapons, though that is a major part of his agenda. It is instead the much more abstract notion of a “shared soul” between the two countries, “generation after generation.” Indeed, he wasn’t all that wrong. For many people in this country—and for those abroad who have been the victims of America’s foreign policy—what is most troublesome today has a history that goes back long before recent Supreme Court (SCOTUS) decisions. On June 24, SCOTUS overturned its landmark 1973 Roe v. Wade decision, ruling that the US Constitution does not guarantee the r...

Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’

10Jul

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Literature, Palestine Affairs

Palestinians ‘Are Not Animals in a Zoo’: On Kanafani and the Need to Redefine the Role of the ‘Victim Intellectual’

Late Palestinian writer Ghassan Kanafani. (Photo: File) By Ramzy Baroud (To the memory of Ghassan Kanafani, an iconic Palestinian leader and engaged intellectual who was assassinated by the Israeli Mossad on July 8, 1972) Years before the United States invaded Iraq in 2003, US media introduced many new characters, promoting them as ‘experts’ who helped ratchet up US propaganda, which ultimately allowed the US government to secure enough popular support for the war. Though enthusiasm for war began dwindling in later years, the invasion of Iraq had indeed begun with a relatively strong popular mandate that allowed US President George W Bush to claim the role of the liberator of Iraq, the fighter of ‘terrorism’ and the champion of US global interests....

Listen – Libya: The curse of the militias

10Jul

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Libya

Listen – Libya: The curse of the militias

Mohamed El-Doufani* writes: Libyan activist and popular rapper Assem Mihirig shares with us a deeply insightful analysis, derived from direct experience, of the workings and power of the militias blighting Libya and the thinking of their leaders, and offers a view of how they can be dealt with. They were hailed as heroes while they were fighting Muammar Gaddafi’s forces in 2011. But not all was as it seemed. From the outset Gaddafi had blamed the Islamists for the protests against his regime. Although he was right, by that time he had become an embarrassing eccentric and the butt of jokes the world over, and few people took him seriously. The first foreign voice to raise the alarm was Admiral James Stavridis, the American commander of NATO, who in March 20...

Nazi regime is the real winner of Biden’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince

10Jul

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USA, ZIO-NAZI

Nazi regime is the real winner of Biden’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince

Israel is the real winner of Biden’s meeting with the Saudi crown prince CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Vice President Joe Biden is seen on large video screens as he addresses the American Israel Public Affairs Committee (AIPAC) Policy Conference in Washington, Sunday, March 20, 2016. (photo) Israel has scored what it considers a string of political and policy victories since Biden took office… Biden has largely continued the heavily pro-Israel policies of his predecessor in the Oval Office, Donald Trump… By Nahal Toosi, reposted from Politico [photos and annotations added by IAK] President Joe Biden will reluctantly set aside his human rights qualms to meet Saudi Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman next week, an awkward encounter that U.S. officials hope wil...

The (almost) unbelievable story of Nazi killer – and the lies that are protecting him

10Jul

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

The (almost) unbelievable story of Nazi killer – and the lies that are protecting him

The (almost) unbelievable story of an Israeli killer – and the lies that are protecting him CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Ali Harb and his family were up against two adversaries – Israeli soldiers and settlers (pictured: Israeli soldiers and settlers confront Palestinians during a protest against the expansion of Jewish settlements near the West Bank town of Salfit, Monday, Nov. 30, 2020). (AP Photo/Majdi Mohammed) Ideological Israeli settlers, determined to make life miserable for Palestinians, often resort to violence (with Israeli military cover). Ali Harb’s death is one example – and the settler may get away with murder. by Kathryn Shihadah After Ali Harb’s gruesome death last month, the chronicle of events that followed was unsurprising to Palestinians liv...

The latest victims in Nazi’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians

10Jul

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

The latest victims in Nazi’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians

The latest victims in Israel’s ongoing slaughter of Palestinians CONTACT@IFAMERICANSKNEW.ORG Palestinians killed by Israel: Mohammad Abdullah Saleh Hamed, 16, Mohammad Maher Nafe’ Mer’ey, 25, Sa’diyya Farajallah, 68, Kamel Abdullah Alawna, 18, Ahmad Harb Ayyad, 32 (IAK) Israeli violence continues to take Palestinian lives with impunity. Here are five of the most recent victims. Israeli soldiers, police, and illegal settlers have killed 17 Palestinians since the beginning of June (no Israelis were killed during this time). Although mainstream Western media rarely mentions these deaths, IAK recognizes the significance of each victim to her or his loved ones and as part of the bigger picture of Palestinian suffering. Below are reports on the 5 most r...