Month: Mar 2014

Monsanto’s toxic Roundup BANNED in 1st country

Glyphosate blamed for kidney failure.. banned in Sri Lanka

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March 12, 2014, 9:50 pm

By Don Asoka Wijewardena

President Mahinda Rajapaksa has banned the import of all weedicides containing ‘Glyphosate’ with immediate effect as the chemical cocktail commonly  known as roundup has been found to be the main cause of chronic kidney disease.monsanto-in-argentina

Senior Lecturer of the Rajarata University Medical Faculty Dr. Channa Jayasumana told The Island, quoting Special Projects Minister S. M. Chandrasena that President Rajapaksa ordered the ban. Continue reading “Monsanto’s toxic Roundup BANNED in 1st country”

Guantanamo: 12 yrs of kidnap, torture, force-feeding and no trials

A letter from Guantanamo: ‘Nobody can truly understand how we suffer’
 from AL JAZEERA with thanks

Al-Alwi describes the humiliating and brutal treatment he suffers at Guantanamo.

Last updated: 13 Mar 2014 12:03
Moath al-Alwi
Moath al-Alwi is a Yemeni national who has been in US custody since 2002. He was one of the very first prisoners moved to Guantanamo, where the US military assigned him the Internment Serial Number 028.
ca672c71-bcef-40b7-8441-f6f76a8bdc51_16x9_788x442Dozens of Guantanamo prisoners who have not been tried still await release [EPA] Continue reading “Guantanamo: 12 yrs of kidnap, torture, force-feeding and no trials”

Chomsky in Japan: State Cover-Ups of horrific crimes

Chomsky: From Hiroshima to Fukushima, Vietnam to Fallujah, State Power Ignores Its Massive Harm

Noam Chomsky, world-renowned political dissident, linguist, and author. He is Institute Professor Emeritus at Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where he has taught for more than 50 years.march 14 chomsky in japam

World-renowned political dissident, linguist, author and MIT Professor Noam Chomsky traveled to Japan last week ahead of the three-year anniversary of the Fukushima crisis. Chomsky, now 85 years old, met with Fukushima survivors, including families who evacuated the area after the meltdown.

“[It’s] particularly horrifying that this is happening in Japan with its unique, horrendous experiences with the impact of nuclear explosions, which we don’t have to discuss,” Chomsky says. “And it’s particularly horrifying when happening to children — but unfortunately, this is what happens all the time.”

see interview HERE:  http://www.democracynow.org/2014/3/11/chomsky_from_hiroshima_to_fukushima_vietnam

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Huge Direct Action against obsolete Nukes: Greenpeace

240 Greenpeace Activists Take Direct Action Protesting Europe’s Aging Nuclear Reactors

Greenpeace International |  By Isadora Wronski     Last week, 240 Greenpeace activists from national and regional offices took action across Europe to highlight the risk of aging nuclear reactors.

 

 

In Switzerland, about 100 Greenpeace activists from six different countries entered the station at Beznau. They climbed the superstructure of the reactor and hung banners demanding the immediate shut-down of the 45 year old power plant while a paraglider circled the sky. Continue reading “Huge Direct Action against obsolete Nukes: Greenpeace”

STOP Putin and Obama’s Imperialist War Games

The Ukraine is more or less bankrupt, ruined equally by predator capitalist western bankers and rapacious Russian oligarchs and swindlers. Now after 20 years pillage we see nationalists and macho morons on both sides playing WAR CHICKEN for the right to continue sucking the country dry for the foreseeable future.

Police officers arrest an anti-Russian demonstrator from the group Femen outside of an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels
Stop Putin’s War! Police officers arrest an anti-War demonstrator from the group Femen outside of an emergency meeting of EU foreign ministers at the EU Council building in Brussels

So who is ”right”?  Both the US/EU and the Russian leaders are ODIOUS IDIOTS playing with the lives of us all for their own megalomaniac obsessions with power, prestige, rape culture and greed. Continue reading “STOP Putin and Obama’s Imperialist War Games”

Portraits of Tribal Heroines for Women’s Day

full gallery HERE  http://www.survivalinternational.

braz-awa-tn-2011-3968-final_gallery_large– Little Butterfly, a young girl from the nomadic Awá people, the Earth’s most threatened tribe.
 

On International Women’s Day, Survival International profiles the stories of the world’s tribal women.

For women of the Awá hunter-gatherer tribe in the Brazilian Amazon, an egalitarian society is normal; some Awá women even take several husbands, a practice known as polyandry….http://www.survival..

On International Women’s Day, Survival International profiles the stories of the world’s tribal women.

© Domenico Pugliese/Survival

full gallery HERE  http://www.survivalinternational.

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5m see Shock video ‘Oppressed Majority’ ..men are women

Wolf-whistles, “hey baby” and “keep smiling honey!” are the types of things you’d expect to hear directed at a woman walking down the street. But what would the world look like if gender roles were reversed? A new short film seeks to answer that question — and the result is chilling. output_XXIN1b

On what seems to be just another ordinary day, a man is exposed to sexism and sexual violence in a society ruled by women… (10 minutes watch below)

Continue reading “5m see Shock video ‘Oppressed Majority’ ..men are women”