Selected Articles: North Korea Threatens America?, Fukushima: Prospects for Humanity, Greece: Economic Fascism
North Korea Threatens America. They’re Coming, They’re Going to Blow Us Up
By Prof Michel Chossudovsky, March 13 2017
Trump believes that Kim Jong-un is crazy. Take him out. The U.S. media concurs: the DPRK is a threat to US national security requiring a preemptive first strike THAAD missile attack in the name of “self defense”. Who’s crazy? Kim or Trump? Never mind if it unleashes war with China and Russia.
Open Letter to the People of Greece: You Are Being Slaughtered before the World’s Eyes
By Peter Koenig, March 11 2017
Dearest and Esteemed People of Greece, You are being slaughtered right in front of the world’s eyes and nobody says beep. Least the Greek elite. Your Government. A few, but a few too many, allow the slaughter because it doesn’t concern them. They are blinded by the false glamour of the euro and of belonging to the ‘elite class’ of the noble Europeans (sic!).
Fukushima Radiation, What Prospects for Humanity
By Michael Welch and Helen Caldicott, March 12 2017
In this interview, conducted and recorded on International Women’s Day, Dr. Caldicott talks about the high radiation reading recently recorded at Unit 2, efforts to contain the radioactive water spilling out of the facility, projected health risks from the cesium, tritium, strontium and other isotopes spewing from the site and much, much more. Caldicott also extends the discussion to talk about Canada’s role in nuclear proliferation and the threats posed by the new Trump Administration and Cold War atmosphere in which it is situated.
Assault on Animal Rights, Poaching in Europe’s Suburbs
By Dr. Binoy Kampmark, March 12 2017
It was a matter of time. The war of poachers against those attempting to conserve species, and the animals themselves, took a gruesome turn this week. At the Parc Zoologique de Thoiry outside Paris, a white southern white rhinoceros named Vince was shot three times, with one horn sawn by attackers keen to bring the predations of the ivory market to Europe. The gruesome and bloody scene is worth noting on several levels.
Our Age Of Folly. America Abandons its Democracy
By Dr. Paul Craig Roberts, March 10 2017
America’s participation in the Vietnam War lasted for a decade or thereabouts. The extraordinary carnage and war crimes served no interest other than the power and profit of the military/security complex and the paranoia of the arbiters of US foreign policy. No lesson learned, we have spent the entirety of the 21st century to date repeating the mistake.
