Increasing Fukushima Radiation Dangers

April 7 2011 by rowan wolf in CORPORADOES, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, IMPERIALISM, Stephen Lendman |No Comments

By Stephen Lendman Daily reports on efforts to contain Fukushima’s disaster remain worrisome. On April 5, New York Times writers Andrew Pollack and Kevin Drew headlined, “Plant Operator Measures Higher Radiation in Sea,” saying: “(C)ompany officials said that seawater collected near the facility contained radiation several million times the legal limit.” Did you like this? [...]

Japan’s Leaking Water Radiation 100,000 Times Above Normal

April 1 2011 by rowan wolf in ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, Stephen Lendman, THE WORLD |No Comments

By Stephen Lendman Initial March 27   Tokyo Electric (TEPCO) reports detected Fukushima Daiichi Unit 2 radioactive water readings at ten million times normal levels, including: – 2.9 billion becquerels of iodine-134; – 13 million becquerels of iodine-131; and – 2.3 million becquerels (each) of cesium-134 and 137 per cubic centimeter of water in the turbine [...]

Updating Japan’s Nuclear Disaster

March 29 2011 by rowan wolf in HEALTH & MEDICINE, Stephen Lendman |No Comments

By Stephen Lendman Japan’s March 11 earthquake/tsunami-caused nuclear disaster affects millions of people regionally and throughout the Northern Hemisphere. But you’d never know it from most major media reports, downplaying an unfolding catastrophe. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Bad to Worse in Japan

March 21 2011 by rowan wolf in CORPORADOES, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, Stephen Lendman |No Comments

By Stephen Lendman It bears repeating. Government, industry, and major media reports downplay and deny Japan’s unprecedented nuclear disaster, potentially able to kill millions now living and in future generations painfully. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet

Multiples Worse than Chernobyl

March 20 2011 by rowan wolf in CORPORADOES, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, HEALTH & MEDICINE, Stephen Lendman |No Comments

By Stephen Lendman In Japan, coverup and denial persist. In a March 18 press conference, Tokyo Electric’s (TEPCO) spokesman claimed water-dousing lowered radiation levels from 312 microsieverts per hour to 289. However, 48 hours earlier, chief cabinet secretary Yukido Edano said radioactivity levels were misreported in microsieverts instead of millisieverts – 1,000 times stronger. Did [...]

Coverup and Denial in Japan

March 15 2011 by rowan wolf in ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, LIES AND PROPAGANDA, Stephen Lendman |No Comments

By Stephen Lendman Discount all official government statements and major media reports repeating them instead of demanding expert, unbiased views. Officially, Japan’s nuclear emergency is under control and contained. In fact, lies substitute for truths, denial for reality, and managed news for honest reporting. Did you like this? Share it:Tweet