
Jackson Katz, Phd, is an anti-sexist activist and expert on violence, media and masculinities. An author, filmmaker, educator and social theorist, Katz has worked in gender violence prevention work with diverse groups of men and boys in sports culture and the military, and has pioneered work in critical media
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Fukushima disaster causing children’s cancer, new research
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The Thyroid Cancer Hotspot Devastating Fukushima‘s Child Survivors
10 March 2014
Radiating the People: Worrying new claims say childhood cancer cluster has developed around Fukushima radiation zone
It’s what post-Fukushima Japan fears the most; cancer. Amid allegations of government secrecy, worrying new claims say a cancer cluster has developed around the radiation zone and that the victims are children.
In a private children’s hospital well away from the no-go zone, parents are holding on tight to their little sons and daughters hoping doctors won’t find what they’re looking for. Thyroid cancer. Tests commissioned by the local authorities have discerned an alarming spike here. Experts are reluctant to draw a definitive link with Fukushima, but they’re concerned.
“I care because I went to Chernobyl and I saw each child there, so I know the pain they went through”, says Dr Akira Sugenoya, a former thyroid…
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The Spirit of Sankara Resurges in Burkina Faso*
The Spirit of Sankara Resurges in Burkina Faso*
By Ann Garrison
In 1983, a military clique in Burkina Faso assassinated the anti-imperialist head of state Thomas Sankara, plunging the nation back into the clutches of U.S. and French neocolonialism. The people this year ousted the assassins and their presidential guard, in two mass rebellions.
“Anyone who thinks that the presidential guard would have attempted a coup d’état without the knowledge and complicity of the U.S. and France” is blind to the facts. – Dr. Gnaka La Goke
“The people of Burkina Faso took to the streets with signs reading “No Amnesty for Assassins.”
Burkina Faso’s Presidential Guard, a military elite created by longtime dictator Blaise Compaoré, seized power in mid September, but a popular uprising backed up by the Burkinabe army has reversed the coup and restored civilian rule – twice.
These events unfolded nearly eleven months…
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Britain Does not Need Weapons of Mass Destruction (WMD). Declare the Middle East a Nuclear Weapons Free Zone
Germany, Spain, Japan, Italy, Brazil, Canada, Holland and Poland Are Some of the Largest Global Economies ¬ None Have Nuclear WMD
Most are protected by the NATO/ US nuclear umbrella. Britain has no need to possess its own nuclear deterrent. It is not Pakistan, North Korea or Israel with an agenda for territorial expansion or colonisation or illegal settlements.
Unlike the three states above, Britain is a NATO signatory to the nuclear Non Proliferation Treaty (NPT) and the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations.
Whilst the primary duty of any government is the protection of the state – that does not require a nuclear arsenal of weapons of mass destruction.
The answer is to conform to the principle objectives of the NPT and to work to rid the world of nuclear weapons of mass destruction as agreed by all…
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Female Genital Mutilation Banned In Nigeria!
October 1, 2015 by Amanda Froelich
Nigeria’s president has signed legislation banning Female Genital Mutilation (FGM), a practice commonly carried out to “initiate teenagers into womanhood according to Sebei traditional rites.”

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Volkswagon ‘has killed up to 10,000 people just in UK’.
Volkswagon ‘killed up to 10,000 people just in UK’ and left tens of thousands permanently disabled.
This is the simple conclusion from official figures now available.
For the first time figures for poison NO2 and Particulates 2.5 have been included in British figures, adding 30,000 a year to the estimated deaths, nearly all from diesel emissions.
There are about 13 million Diesel vehicles in Britain, with 1.2 m Volkswagon produced cars (about 10%) emitting up to 30 times the legal limit we can safely estimate at least 2,000 deaths a year from these vehicles, and this has been going on since 2009.
So a total of up to 10,000 of us murdered for their profit, plus tens of thousands suffering chronic diseases or slowly dying. Continue reading “Volkswagon ‘has killed up to 10,000 people just in UK’.”


