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Ending Nuclear Evil
Titan Nuclear Missile Museum, Tucson, Arizona. The US has allocated $185 billion to augment its nuclear stockpile over the next decade, on top of the ordinary annual nuclear-weapons budget …
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Ban Proposed on Export Restrictions That Undermine Food Security
Geneva - Egypt has initiated a proposal in the World Trade Organisation (WTO) to ban export restrictions on farm products to poor countries that are net food importers. The …
What Price the Fukushima Meltdown? Comparing Chernobyl and Fukushima
Steam rises from the Fukushima #3 nuclear reactor, March 19, 2011. (Photo: daveeza) On April 12, 2011 the Japanese government officially announced that the severity of the …
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How Many Chernobyls Before We Get It?
A stenciled figure by the elevators in a sixteen story residential building facing the central square of Pripyat, a ghost town near the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in northern …
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Japan Nuclear Disaster Put on Par With Chernobyl
Naomi Matsura, right, and her aunt Shizuko Hoshi, look for her belongings amid the debris of her home left by the tsunami that followed the March 11 earthquake, in …
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The Blowback World of Chalmers Johnson
Book cover to Chalmers Johnson's “Peasant Nationalism and Communist Power: The Emergence of Revolutionary China, 1937-1945.” (Image: Stanford University Press) In going through my husband’s files, …
The Age of Activism
The world is convulsed in protest. In recent months, people have filled the streets in the Middle East, the Balkans, Africa, and many parts of the United States. Their …
The Great Unravelling: Tunisia, Egypt, and the Protracted Collapse of the American Empire
As first published at The Learning Machine
Ukraine’s Assault on a Free Press
In Ukraine, where media diversity is often defined by which powerful oligarch controls which TV station, one network, TVi — known for its independent investigative style — is under …
The Year of Living Dangerously
Get ready for a rocky year. From now on, rising prices, powerful storms, severe droughts and floods, and other unexpected events are likely to play havoc with the fabric …