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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: August 12, 2011
12 August 2011 — Stop NATO South African President Condemns NATO Over Libya Denmark Extends NATO War Mission In Libya U.S. Drone Warfare: Tyranny Of Flying Terror NATO: Over 1.3 Million Reservists In 34 Member, Partner Nations Canadian Military Priority: Boost ‘Operational Capability In The Arctic’ Russian Arctic Force Could Include Paratroopers With 1,500 Troops Continue reading
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Ultra-high radiation levels reported at Japan’s Fukushima plant
The radiation levels — 10,000 millisieverts per hour — are high enough that a single 60-minute dose would be fatal to humans within weeks, MSNBC reported. Tepco said Tuesday it found another spot on the ventilation stack itself where radiation exceeded 10 sieverts per hour, a level that could lead to death after just several… Continue reading
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Flashpoints Audio: NATO Bombing of Libya: Civilians as “Military Targets”?
Today on Flashpoints, NATO says it can bomb civilians in Libya as long as it calls them ‘military targets.’ Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 29, 2011
29 July 2011 — Stop NATO U.S. Plans Interceptor Missile Radar System In NATO States Russian Envoy Visits Turkey Over NATO Interceptor Missile System Japan To Allow Interceptor Missile Transfers To NATO Nations U.S. Missile Shield To Spark Nuclear Arms Race: North Korea Kosovo-Serbia: NATO Declares Crossings ‘Restricted Military Areas,’ Threatens Lethal Force Poland Loses Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 23, 2011
23 July 2011 — Stop NATO Libya: NATO Strikes Civilian Targets NATO Attack Helicopters Intensify Raids Along Libyan Coast Jordanians Hold Demonstration Against U.S. Interference In Region Georgia: U.S. Marines Train ‘High-Quality Combat Units’ Japanese F-15s Arrive For Red Flag-Alaska Continue reading
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Updates on Libyan war/Stop NATO news: July 12, 2011
12 July 2011 — Stop NATO U.S., French Security Guards Violently Disperse Syrian Protesters Afghan War: French Death Toll Reaches 63 U.S. Marines: AFRICOM ‘Adding Muscle’ To African Counterinsurgency Campaigns Japan: U.S. Army To Open New Battle Systems Center For Afghan-, Iraqi-Style Wars Australia: 22,000 U.S., Canadian, Local Troops In Full-Spectrum War Games Serbia: U.S., Continue reading
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Fukushima: Growing resistance challenges pro-nuclear policies By Pierre Rousset
Every day brings new revelations on the gravity of the nuclear accident at Fukushima Daichi and on the mendacious policies which covered the activity of the nucleocrat lobby, on the breadth of the risks imposed on the population by the choice of the atom, on the denial of democracy. Continue reading
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Fukushima Cover Up Unravels By Washington’s Blog
As I’ve repeatedly noted, the Japanese government, other governments and nuclear companies have covered up the extent of the Fukushima crisis. Continue reading
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Fukushima city: officially safe thanks to new ‘creative’ safety standards — RT
‘What the government did was change the radioactivity control level, the standard levels from 1 millisieverts per year to 20 millisieverts per year. That is, 20 times looser [than] the standards before the accident and now they raised the standards so they can say it was as safe as before, but actually the standards have… Continue reading
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Fukushima is the greatest nuclear and environmental disaster in human history By Steven C. Jones
By way of comparison, the Chernobyl nuclear disaster that occured in 1986 in the Ukraine, Russia- heretofore the worst nuclear disaster on record- burned for 10 days and cumulatively killed an estimated 1 million people worldwide. The Fukushima, Japan nuclear disaster has 5 nuclear reactors burning, 2 in partial meltdown and 3 in full meltdown-… Continue reading
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Radiation and Nuclear Powers Stations Japan is dangerously contaminated by radioactivity By Washington’s Blog
“With Three Mile Island and Chernobyl, and now with Fukushima, you can pinpoint the exact day and time they started,” he said, “But they never end.” Continue reading
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Fukushima and the Mass Media Meltdown: The Repercussions of a Pro-Nuclear Corporate Press By Keith Harmon Snow
A sociological and technological discussion — in the wake of the out-of-control nuclear apocalypse in Japan — addressing the compromise of public health and security created by the failure of the western corporate mass media to equitably report on, mildly investigate, or even moderately challenge, the nuclear power industry. Continue reading
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Video: As Japan Nuclear Crisis Worsens, Citizen-Led Radiation Monitors Pressure Govt to Increase Evacuations
Almost three months after the earthquake and tsunami that triggered a nuclear disaster in Japan, new radiation “hot spots” may require the evacuation of more areas further from the damaged Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power facility. Continue reading
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Who Will Take the Radioactive Rods from Fukushima? By Yoichi Shimatsu
The decommissioning of the Fukushima 1 nuclear plant is delayed by a single problem: Where to dispose of the uranium fuel rods? Many of those rods are extremely radioactive and partially melted, and some contain highly lethal plutonium. Continue reading
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“Situation at Fukushima out of control” — RT
The situation at the Fukushima plant is currently out of control, says Professor Christopher Busby from the European Committee on Radiation Risks, who gave RT his insight into the recent developments in Japan. Continue reading
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Stop NATO News Updates 8 May 2011: NATO Ships Leave 63 African Refugees To Die At Sea In Mediterranean
8 May 2011 — Stop NATO NATO Chief: 150,000 Foreign Troops To “Stay The Course” In Afghanistan NATO Ships Leave 63 African Refugees To Die At Sea In Mediterranean 50 Days Of Air War Over Libya: Latest NATO Air Missions NATO Military Operation: Escalation In Bombing Campaign, “Boots On The Ground” NATO Seeks To Disintegrate Continue reading
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Helen Caldicott on Fukushima and things nuclear
Nuclear Facts A very clued in professional who will not be bought or intimidated into silence: Dr Helen Caldicott, true to style, tells it as it is. Continue reading
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Alarming New Fukushima Reports By Stephen Lendman
Five weeks after Japan’s disaster, reports suggest worse, not improved conditions. It portends serious regional and global trouble ahead, besides what’s already happened. Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 8 April, 2011: General: US may consider sending troops into Libya
8 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House We Are Not Being Told The Truth About Libya By Johann Hari “In Pakistan, when we hear Obama’s rhetoric on Libya, we can only laugh. If he was worried about the pointless massacre of innocent civilians, there would an easy first step for him — stop doing it Continue reading
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Information Clearing House Newsletter 6 April 2011: The Peasants Need Pitchforks
6 April, 2011 — Information Clearing House Is America Addicted to War? By Stephen M. Walt Here are my Top 5 Reasons Why America Keeps Fighting Foolish Wars: www.informationclearinghouse.info/article27840.htm Continue reading
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