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Fukushima drainage has 20,000 tons of water with radioactive substance – TEPCO
Tokyo Electric Power Co. (Tepco) said on Tuesday that the drainage system of the crippled Fukushima nuclear power plant contains more than 20,000 tons of water with high levels of radioactive substances. Continue reading
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Hiroshima and Nagasaki: American High School Textbooks Perpetuate The Big Lie By Pat Elder
This summer the world will pause to commemorate the 68th anniversary of the dropping of the atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Most Americans are still supportive of Truman’s decision despite overwhelming historical evidence the bomb had “nothing to do with the end of the war,” in the words of Major General Curtis E. LeMay. Continue reading
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Fukushima: Worse than You Know
You’ve heard bad news about Fukushima recently. But it’s worse than you know. The Wall Street Journal notes that radiation levels outside the plant are likely higher than inside the reactor Continue reading
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Radiation Levels Skyrocket at Fukushima
Record high levels of radioactive tritium have been observed in the harbor at Fukushima. A sample collected Friday contained around 1,100 becquerels of tritium per liter, the highest level detected in seawater since the nuclear crisis at the plant started in March 2011, the utility said Monday. Continue reading
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Video: Beyond Bilderberg By James Corbett
1 June 2013 — The Corbett Report James Corbett has been living and working in Japan since 2004. He started The Corbett Report website in 2007 as an outlet for independent critical analysis of politics, society, history, and economics. Continue reading
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Radioactive: Abe Government Preparing for the Depopulation of Japan By Wayne Madsen
Informed Japanese sources have told WMR that Japan’s right-wing Liberal Democratic Party government of Prime Minister Shinzo Abe is laying plans for the forced depopulation of most of the Japanese archipelago due to the deadly radiation emanating from the crippled Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactors. Continue reading
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The Dangers of War: What is Behind the US-North Korea Conflict? By Jack A. Smith
The U.S. is well aware North Korea’s statements are not backed up by sufficient military power to implement its rhetorical threats, but appears to be escalating tensions all the same. What’s up? I’ll have to go back a bit to explain the situation. Continue reading
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Video: The Bomb Sends a Message to the World – Untold History
Peter Kuznick (co-author with Oliver Stone of The Untold History of the Unites States): The atomic bomb did not end the war with Japan, it was a threat to the Soviet Union that the US would dominate the post-war world – Continue reading
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New at Strategic Culture Foundation 17-23 March 2013
23 March 2013 — Strategic Culture Foundation Journalists Who Got Iraq Wrong 10 Years Ago and Syria Wrong Now Should Be Sacked23.03.2013 | 10:48 | Wayne MADSEN Continue reading
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The Return of Empires (V) By Dmitry MININ
A peculiarity of the formation of «larger spaces», or modern-day empires in the East, is that some of them were themselves, until quite recently, objects of colonial ambition. Other imperial projects, meanwhile, are part of even larger schemes and are being built into an intricate system of hierarchical relations and vassal dependencies, over which the… Continue reading
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Japan And China: Is War Around The Corner?
Japan on Tuesday lodged a protest against China, claiming Chinese military frigates locked their fire-control radar on to a Japanese navy vessel as well as a helicopter. Continue reading
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Fukushima “Decontamination” Measures Are Making Things Worse
Cleanup crews in Fukushima Prefecture have dumped soil and leaves contaminated with radioactive fallout into rivers. Water sprayed on contaminated buildings has been allowed to drain back into the environment. And supervisors have instructed workers to ignore rules on proper collection and disposal of the radioactive waste. Continue reading
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ICH 10 December 2012: U.S. Militarism Threatening World War III
10 December 2012 — Information Clearing House US Seen as ‘First Among Equals’ in 2030: Intel Report By Shaun Tandon The study predicted that Asia’s economy, military spending and technological investment would surpass those of North America and Europe combined by 2030, but warned of major uncertainty over an emerging China. http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article33279.htm Continue reading
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No Wonder China is Nervous as Obama Pivots By William Engdahl
To read the mainstream Western media, one would conclude that China has become an economic giant now intent on flexing its military muscle and making a massive arms buildup to do so. Continue reading
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New at SCF 10-17 November 2012: Japan-China-Korea / Syria / Obama / Myanmar / Russia / DEA / USA / Bahrain
17 November 2012 — Strategic Culture Foundation Once again on the territorial dispute between Japan and China and Korea (II) 17.11.2012 | 10:11 | Alexander VORONTSOV Almost simultaneously with the aggravation of the territorial dispute between China and Japan, a long-standing dispute has sharply escalated between Japan and South Korea over ownership of the Dokdo Islands Continue reading
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The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan. It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives By Washington's Blog
Based on a detailed investigation of all the facts and supported by the testimony of the surviving Japanese leaders involved, it is the Survey’s opinion that certainly prior to 31 December 1945 and in all probability prior to 1 November 1945, Japan would have surrendered even if the atomic bombs had not been dropped, even… Continue reading
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Stuxnet and the Bomb By Kennette Benedict
The cyber shot heard around the world this month marked America’s first known foray into a new, unpredictable, and potentially society-threatening cyber battlefield. And yet it’s all so familiar: Parallels with the start of the nuclear age and the Cold War haunt every aspect of this development. Continue reading
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Fukushima Daiichi: From Nuclear Power Plant to Nuclear Weapon By Prof. Anthony Hall
There have been many previews of the catastrophe anticipated by Einstein in the period after 1945 and before the March 3, 2011, 3/3/11, the day an earthquake and tsunami set in motion a chain reaction of interconnected crises that ruined Japan’s oldest operating nuclear power plant. The evidence grows every day that this local incident… Continue reading
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