Emotional Resilience In Traumatic Times, By Carolyn Baker

April 16 2011 by rowan wolf in ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, GUEST AUTHOR, HEALTH & MEDICINE |No Comments

By Carolyn Baker of Speaking Truth to Power. While mainstream media has been encouraging collective dithering over a possible U.S. government shutdown, the chilling realities of off-the-chart levels of radiation from the Fukushima nuclear power plant disaster, escalating upheavals throughout the Middle East, and surging oil prices have been simmering in the background, remaining the [...]

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 Apocalypse

April 6 2011 by rowan wolf in AMERICAN BRAINWASH, ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, IMPERIALISM, Stephen Lendman, TOXIC CULTURE |2 Comments

By Stephen Lendman Despite a disaster multiples worse than Chernobyl, major media reports all along downplayed it. Now they largely ignore it, moving on to more important things like celebrity features and baseball’s opening day, besides pretending American-led Libya bombing is well-intended when, in fact, it’s another brazen power grab – an imperial war of [...]

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 [...]

Nuclear Waste and “Spent Nuclear Fuel” : The Largest Concentration of Radioactivity on the Planet is in the USA

March 30 2011 by rowan wolf in ENVIRONMENTAL STRUGGLES, GUEST AUTHOR, HEALTH & MEDICINE, LIES AND PROPAGANDA, TOXIC CULTURE |No Comments

By Rady Ananda. Republished from the Center for Globalization Research. US stores spent nuclear fuel rods at 4 times pool capacity In a recent interview with The Real News Network, Robert Alvarez, a nuclear policy specialist since 1975, reports that spent nuclear fuel in the United States comprises the largest concentration of radioactivity on the planet: [...]