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US/UK to risk WW3 to bomb Syrians with crazy ‘Chemical Weapons’ Pretext

update here: Good News At Last! .. Syria Bombing to be Cancelled?

The US military/industrial economy needs fresh blood.. or rather needs a war,

the final logic of insane predator capitalism.

Morality. …Can a nation which has repeatedly used and sold chemical weapons then morally bomb another country on suspicion they used them? Continue reading “US/UK to risk WW3 to bomb Syrians with crazy ‘Chemical Weapons’ Pretext”

Resistance Call from jailed anarchist whistleblower Jeremy Hammond

Jeremy Hammond is a gifted young computer programmer facing a decade in prison. His crime? Leaking information from the private intelligence firm Strategic Forecasting, information which revealed that Stratfor had been spying on human rights activists at the behest of corporations and the U.S. government. Continue reading “Resistance Call from jailed anarchist whistleblower Jeremy Hammond”

Worse than Chernobyl: Fukushima’s genetic poisoning of the planet

The inner threat of Fukushima crisis

Professor Christopher Busby is a British nuclear scientist known for his theories about the negative health effects of very low-dose ionising radiation.sss

Workers wearing protective suits and masks are seen near tanks of radiation ultra-contaminated water at Tokyo Electric Power Company’s (TEPCO) tsunami-crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant (Reuters / Issei Kato) Hundreds of these tanks are said to be in imminent danger of leaking due to inferior plastic seals used to save money.

I recently pointed out, this operation has to go on forever – a long sickness, but at least not a sudden death. However, this week begins a new development in the potential sudden death department. Continue reading “Worse than Chernobyl: Fukushima’s genetic poisoning of the planet”

Deal for Yasuni Paradise Lost due to Euro Greed

Morning mist floats above the Tiputini River in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador. Photograph by Tim Laman, National Geographic with thanks — Morning mist floats above the Tiputini River in Yasuní National Park, Ecuador.
Photo from Tim Laman, National Geographic +with thanks+

In 2010 Ecuador made the world an offer it couldn’t — or at least, shouldn’t have been able to — refuse. For the measly price of $3.6bn, it promised not to exploit the Ishpingo-Tiputini-Tambococha oil block in the Yasuni national park, a 675 square mile patch of pristine Amazon rainforest that is home to barely contacted indigenous tribes, thousands of species of trees and nearly 1bn barrels of crude oil. Continue reading “Deal for Yasuni Paradise Lost due to Euro Greed”