8 November, 2013 — WashingtonsBlog
Scientists Warn of Extreme Risk
We’ve long said that the greatest short-term threat to humanity is from the fuel pools at Fukushima.
Tag: earthquake
Victims of Haiti cholera epidemic sue the United Nations By John Marion
24 October 2013 — WSWS
On October 9, a lawsuit was filed against the United Nations in the US federal court for the southern district of New York by lawyers from the Bureau des Avocats Internationaux, the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, and a Miami law firm. The suit, brought on behalf of the families of five victims of the Haitian cholera epidemic, seeks class action status for all victims of the epidemic, which to date has caused at least 8,300 deaths and left more than 679,000 sick.
HAITI: Profit-Driven “Slum Reconstruction” Will Cost “Hundreds Of Millions”
17 June 2013 — Haiti Grassroots Watch
Three years after its star-studded launch by President René Préval, actor Sean Penn and various other Haitian and foreign dignitaries, the model camp for Haiti’s 2010 earthquake victims has helped give birth to what might become the country’s most expansive – and most expensive – slum.
VTJP Occupied Palestine and Israel News and Articles 16 April 2013: Israeli occupation: You have to see it to believe it
16 April 2013 — VTJP
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Official: 3 men attacked by settlers near Nablus
4/16/2013 – NABLUS (Ma’an) — Three men were injured late Monday after being attacked by settlers near Nablus, a PA official said. Ghassan Daghlas, who monitors settlement activities in the northern West Bank, told Ma’an that a group of settlers from Homesh attacked three men near the village of Burqa. Ala Yaish, 25, and….
HLLN 13 January 2013: Your story Haiti, For You: Light and Libation, A Bouquet of Tears | Seismic Shifts – Haiti freestyling to murder Tarzan, Jane & their Uncle Toms
13 January 2013 — HLLN
Recommended HLLN Link: Foreign violence against Haiti is the norm. Haiti struggles on, paying an untenable price, lighting a path for love and justice http://bit.ly/13eKwK3
Felipe Luciano/WBAI interviews Ezili Dantò of HLLN on Haiti, three years after the earthquake. Broadcast on Jan 11, 2012 http://bit.ly/13eKwK3 Continue reading
Videos: Canada mines Haiti via 'aid' / Canada Suspends 'aid' to Haiti / Haitians Demand Living Wage
13 January 2013 — The Real News Network
The Real News Network have got a bunch of videos dealing with Haiti that’s worth checking out: Continue reading
PAMBAZUKA NEWS 612: STAKES IN HAITI, CENTRAL AFRICAN REPUBLIC & THE LOGICS OF IMPERIALISM
11 January 2013 — Pambazuka News
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“Sandy”: Obama’s “Good Storm” By Felicity Arbuthnot
12 November, 2012 — Global Research
“The abomination of desolation.” (St. Matthew, 24:15.)
Cathy Breen from Voices for Non Violence was late to hear of Hurricane Sandy and of its impact on the Manhatten community where she lives. She was in Najav, in southern Iraq, where, as the rest of the country, the electricity is intermittent to non-existent, nearly ten years after the invasion which wrought its final near extinction.
I pay this price for you: Haiti is open for business on top of our decomposed dead bodies, on top of our crushed bones…
12 November 2012 — Ezili Danto
Recommended HLLN Links: Photo: Obama Sec. of State, Hillary Clinton and former President Clinton, celebrate sweatshop opening at Caracol, Haiti. At the bottom in their own country, sad, exploited but dressed-up Haitians frame the Avatar crew’s feet. October 22, 2012. Photo credit: Larry Downing, AP – http://bit.ly/RyxPCN
HAITI: Humanitarian Aid for Earthquake Victims Used to Build Five Star Hotels By Julie Lévesque
28 June, 2012 — Global Research
As some 500 000 Haitians still live in displaced camps, five star hotels are being built amid shanty towns.
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Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon By Prof. Anthony Hall
13 June, 2012 — Global Research – Veterans Today
“Our world is faced with a crisis that has never before been envisaged in its whole existence… The unleashed power of the atom has changed everything save our modes of thinking, and thus we drift towards unparalleled catastrophe.” Albert Einstein, Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, May, 1946
Ultra-high radiation levels reported at Japan’s Fukushima plant
2 August 2011 — GlobalPost
Radiation levels that could kill humans within seconds reported at Fukushima
The operator of Japan’s crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant detected the highest radiation levels at the facility since the initial earthquake and tsunami five months ago, a company spokesman said Tuesday.
Democracy Now! 14 July 2011: Dr. Paul Farmer on Haiti After the Earthquake
14 July, 2011 — Democracy Now!
Dr. Paul Farmer on Haiti After the Earthquake: “How Can We Do a Better Job of Cleaning Up This Mess?”
Eighteen months ago this week, Haiti was devastated by an earthquake that killed as many as 300,000 people, injured hundreds of thousands, and left more than one million homeless. At the time of the earthquake, Haiti was already the poorest nation in the Western hemisphere, and now it is still struggling to recover. We spend the hour with Dr. Paul Farmer, who has been working in Haiti for nearly three decades, and since 2009 has served as the U.N. deputy special envoy for Haiti working under former President Bill Clinton. Watch/Listen/Read
Why Context Matters: Journalists and Haiti By Gina Athena Ulysse
8 July 2011 — msmagazine.com
Earlier this week, the Ms. Blog interviewed journalist Mac McClelland regarding the much-discussed online article she wrote about dealing with PTSD after a reporting stint in Haiti. One of our Ms. bloggers wanted to weigh in with her thoughts about the controversial story.
How the U.S. meddled in Haiti By Andrea Hektor
7 July 2011 — Socialist Worker
With the country now in the hands of Michel Martelly, the U.S.-backed candidate who a presidential runoff election earlier this year, Haiti’s crisis remains as difficult as ever—as a result of the natural disaster of the 2010 earthquake, but also decades of U.S. intervention.
The Tyee – How We Helped Pave Haiti's Road to Cholera Hell By Crawford Kilian
7 July 2011 — thetyee.ca
On Oct. 18, 2010, Cuban medical personnel in rural Haiti reported they had treated 61 cases of acute watery diarrhea in the previous week. On that same day they had another 28 cases and two deaths.
Press under attack in Haiti By John Mario
12 July 2011 — wsws.org
A series of recent events in Haiti have highlighted continuing threats to press freedom in a country where democratic rights are routinely denied in the interests of US imperialism and the local ruling elite.
Fukushima: Growing resistance challenges pro-nuclear policies By Pierre Rousset
7 JUly 2011 — Climate and Capitalism – International Viewpoint
The Japanese people must simultaneously face the consequences of the earthquake, the tsunami and the Fukushima disaster. The Japanese crisis makes no exception to the rule: in time of humanitarian disaster class domination strengthens more than it is blurred in the name of solidarity.
Fukushima Cover Up Unravels By Washington’s Blog
4 July 2011 — Global Research – Washington’s Blog – 2011-07-03
As I’ve repeatedly noted, the Japanese government, other governments and nuclear companies have covered up the extent of the Fukushima crisis.
Nebraska Nuclear Threat: As Predictable as Fukushima By Washington’s Blog
22 June 2011 — Global Research
Nuclear accidents – like oil spills and financial meltdowns – happen because big companies push to make more money by cutting every safety measure in the books.
The accident at Fukushima was predictable.
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