World-News

Matthew Penney and Mark Selden, The Asia-Pacific Journal: 'On April 12, 2011 the Japanese government officially announced that the severity of the Fukushima Daiichi nuclear disaster had reached level 7, the highest on the International Nuclear Event Scale. Before Fukushima, the only level 7 case was the 1986 Chernobyl disaster, whose 25th anniversary was marked on April 26. Two and a half months after the 3.11 catastrophe, the first to affect multiple reactors, TEPCO and the Japanese government continue to struggle to bring the reactors at Fukushima Daiichi under control. TEPCO estimates that the problems could be solved in six to nine months now appearing extraordinarily optimistic and plans have been announced to close nuclear power plants deemed of particularly high risk such as the Hamaoka facility.'

http://www.truthout.org/what-price-fukushima-meltdown-comparing-chernobyl-and-fukushima/1306346330



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Richard D. Wolff, Richard D. Wolff's Blog: *The current capitalist global crisis began with the severe contraction in the housing markets in mid-2007. Therefore welcome to Year Five. This inventory of where things stand may begin with the good news: the major banks, the stock market, and corporate profits have largely or completely 'recovered' from the lows they reached early in 2009. The US dollar has fallen sharply against many currencies of countries with which the US trades and that has enabled US exports to rebound from their crisis lows.'

http://www.truthout.org/crisis-enters-year-five/1306337883



Talkin' 'Bout a Revolution

Michael Pirsch, Truthout: 'Our country is in tatters. While more and more of us plunge into official poverty status, our elected leaders, who are in service to the wealthy elite, argue about how much to cut from programs that 'promote the general welfare.' They squander our exhaustible resources on illegal wars. The rich have stolen so much from us that they comprise the wealthiest 1 percent in well over 100 years, and they are supported in all this by their pet pundits, who dominate the corporate media. And none of our elected leaders from either of the two parties question the morality of shredding the most basic programs 'to promote the general welfare.'

http://www.truthout.org/talkin-about-revolution/1306268992



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- AIPRI: 3000 milliards de doses létales potentielles (Inventaire détaillé)
- Les particules fines de Fukushima viennent à nous. Nul besoin de se rendre sur place ...

http://www.cartoradiations.fr/



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25. Mai 2011

Zum Tod eines Bundeswehrsoldaten nach einem Anschlag nahe Kundus erklärt Christine Buchholz, Mitglied im Geschäftsführenden Parteivorstand der LINKEN:

Unser Beileid gilt den Angehörigen und Freunden des in Afghanistan getöteten Bundeswehrsoldaten und den Verletzten. Der Anschlag verdeutlicht, dass sich die Situation in Afghanistan weiter zugespitzt hat und auch die Bundeswehr zunehmend als Teil des Problems gesehen wird. Die Schüsse, die von Bundeswehrsoldaten vergangenen Mittwoch auf Demonstranten in Talokan abgegeben wurden, verstärken diese Entwicklung. Solange die Bundeswehr an der Aufstandsbeekämpfung beteiligt ist, wird es keine Sicherheit für die Soldaten geben.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/bundeswehr-endlich-raus-aus-afghanistan/



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Main Post

Dazu kommen neue Formen der Jugendgewalt: Massiver Anstieg der Amokandrohungen, Cybermobbing, Handygewalt, Angriffe auf Lehrpersonen, brutale Übergriffe im ...

http://www.mainpost.de/regional/schweinfurt/Gewalt-Verzweiflung-Wie-Jugendlichen-helfen-;art742,6164176



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Nicht nur im Bundestag sind die Nebentätigkeiten von Abgeordneten derzeit ein Thema. Auch im Europaparlament wird derzeit intensiv über neue Regeln gegen Interessenkonflikte von Abgeordneten diskutiert. Ausgangspunkt sind die verdeckten Recherchen von britischen Journalisten im März, bei denen Abgeordnete gegen Geld bereit waren, Änderungsanträge ins Parlament einzubringen. Angesichts dieser in Deutschland wenig wahrgenommenen 'Cash-for-Law'- Skandale geht die EU-Debatte stärker ins Grundsätzliche. Wir haben mit unserem europäischen Netzwerk ALTER-EU acht Forderungen aufgestellt, wie solchen Interessenkonflikten entgegengewirkt werden sollte. Unter anderem fordern wir ein Verbot für alle Nebentätigkeiten, die Lobbyarbeit oder Lobbyberatung beinhalten.

Weitere Informationen: http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=6459



Jürgen Rüttgers Drehtür klemmt

Der ehemalige NRW-Ministerpräsident Jürgen Rüttgers sollte Exekutivdirektors des europäischen Bahnverbands CER werden, also der oberste EU-Lobbyist der Bahnbranche. Nach einem Bericht der Wirtschaftswoche vom 16.4.2011 habe er allerdings trotz Unterstützung aus dem Kanzleramt keine Chance. Ins Rennen geschickt hatte ihn die Deutsche Bahn. LobbyControl lehnt solche fliegenden Wechsel von Politikern in Lobbyjobs generell ab.

http://www.lobbycontrol.de/blog/index.php?p=6242



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Wall Street Journal

05/25/11

Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged Iraq to host U.S. troops beyond the end of the year to maintain stability and keep Iran at bay, echoing the growing concerns of U.S. military officials that the government in Baghdad isn t moving fast enough to request an extension of the U.S. troop presence. Mr. Gates predicted the U.S. would accede to such a request to send a message to American allies and Iran that the U.S. isn t withdrawing from the region, he said in remarks to a think tank in Washington on Tuesday...

http://tinyurl.com/3drwfm6


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24-7

Constitution Project Urges Congress to Reform Patriot Act Now, Not to Simply Reauthorize Expiring Provisions
http://www.commondreams.org/newswire/2011/05/24-6



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http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24-9

Asserting War Powers, House Moves To End Afghanistan, Libya Wars
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/27-6



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http://www.commondreams.org/headline/2011/05/24-9



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http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-1388888/GM-food-toxins-blood-93-unborn-babies.html


From Mast Sanity/Mast Network



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The government s use of paid, untrained informants, concocted plots and racial profiling of Muslim communities in its frantic effort to stop so-called homegrown terrorism has raised serious human and civil rights concerns.

http://colorlines.com/archives/2011/05/manufactured_threats_of_homegrown_terrorism.html


From Information Clearing House



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Washington often acts as if Pakistan were its client state, with no other possible patron but the United States.

http://www.salon.com/news/politics/war_room/2011/05/24/pakistan_china_miscalculation


From Information Clearing House



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President Barack Obama has gone to war in Libya without requesting a declaration of war from Congress. But he said he would abide by the War Powers Resolution. However, his 60 day grace period for bombing ended on Friday.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/doug-bandow/lying-about-libya_b_866268.html


From Information Clearing House

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FAIR: Libya and the Law: Media Show Slight Interest in War Powers, Geneva
http://www.commondreams.org/view/2011/05/24-10

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Illegal war? Congress doesn t care

Cato Institute Cato Institute
by Gene Healy
05/24/11

Remember when President Obama assured us his Libyan adventure would be over in 'days, not weeks?' To employ a Clinton-era euphemism, 'That statement is no longer operative.' (Translation: I lied.)...

http://www.cato.org/pub_display.php?pub_id=13132



It s the missions, stupid

Campaign For Liberty Campaign For Liberty
by Doug Bandow

05/23/11

So far the U.S. has spent $750 million on the war in Libya. It is difficult to discern any purpose to the conflict, which demonstrates why America is going broke: spending lavishly on 'defense' activities which have nothing to do with defending America...

http://www.campaignforliberty.com/article.php?view=1446


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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http://lewrockwell.com/roberts/roberts310.html

On Patriotism
http://lewrockwell.com/reed/reed206.html

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America s real deficit is a moral one

Our Future Blog
by Richard Trumka

05/24/11

Politicians in Wisconsin, Ohio and a dozen other states are trying to take away workers' right to organize and bargain for a better life. But that s not all. In state after state, politicians are attacking voting rights by imposing ID requirements, shortening early voting periods, blocking young people from voting because they are too 'liberal' and even levying criminal penalties and fines for breaking arbitrary rules in the voter registration process...

http://tinyurl.com/3lgk37g



How about an 'American Spring?'

San Francisco Chronicle
by Deepak Chopra

05/23/11

Anyone who has admired President Obama s idealism all along should come away inspired by the high-mindedness of his 'Arab spring' speech. It served to reassure his liberal base that he wasn't solely continuing the Bush policy in the Middle East (i.e., kill every terrorist, ignore human rights...

http://tinyurl.com/3trec6r



What Americans want

In These Times
by David Moberg

05/23/11

A national budget tells a lot more about a country and its politics than simply where the government s money comes from and where it goes. As President Obama rightly stressed, it is also 'about the kind of future we want ? [and] the kind of country we believe in.' But as happens so often in the United States, the political and media establishments distort the public debate by accepting the right-wing s framing. In this case that means the issue is simply deficits and spending cuts, not national needs and adequate revenue...

http://www.inthesetimes.com/article/7333/what_americans_want



The resistance in Obama Time

CounterPunch
by Bill Quigley

05/24/11

Since President Obama was inaugurated, there have been over two thousand six hundred arrests of activists protesting in the US. Research shows over 670 people have been arrested in protests inside the US already in 2011, over 1290 were arrested in 2010, and 665 arrested in 2009. These figures certainly underestimate the number actually arrested as arrests in US protests are rarely covered by the mainstream media outlets which focus so intently on arrests of protestors in other countries. Arrests at protest have been increasing each year since 2009...

http://counterpunch.org/quigley05242011.html


Informant: Thomas L. Knapp



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IEA-Chef Nobuo Tanaka will deutschen Alleingang beim Atomausstieg verhindern.

http://www.heise.de/tp/blogs/2/149894



Atomstrom kommt die Franzosen teuer zu stehen

'Wir sind in einer Sackgasse'. Gespräch mit Guillaume Duval über die französische Marotte Atomkraft.

http://www.heise.de/tp/artikel/34/34804/1.html

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26. Mai 2011

Atomausstieg als Geschäftsmodell für die Atomkonzerne

Anlässlich der aktuellen Greenpeace-Studie zu den Konsequenzen der Ereignisse in Fukushima und den Ausstiegsplänen der Regierung aus der Atomenergie, erklärt die Vorsitzende der Partei DIE LINKE, Gesine Lötzsch:

Die Studie belegt, Deutschland ist ebenso wenig wie Japan auf einen Super-Gau vorbereitet. Die Bundesregierung gibt vor, so schnell als möglich aus der Atomenergie aussteigen zu wollen. Doch die vielen Hintertüren, die sie für die Atomkonzerne offen hält, weisen darauf hin, dass ein schneller Atomausstieg gar nicht gewollt ist. Der Verzicht auf dieBrennelementesteuer ist zudem ein Beleg dafür, dass die Energiewende ausschließlich von den Bürgerinnen und Bürger gezahlt werden soll. Die Atomkonzerne werden sich den Ausstieg von der Bundesregierung vergolden lassen. DIE LINKE hat eine Exit-Strategie mit Anti-Atom-Verbänden und Initiativen entwickelt. Der Atomausstieg ist danach bis 2014 machbar. Es wird länger dauern, wenn die Stromkonzerne weiter mit all ihrer Wirtschaftsmacht gegen die Energiewende vorgehen können. Deshalb muss die Macht des Stromkartells gebrochen werden.

http://www.die-linke.de/nc/presse/presseerklaerungen/detail/artikel/atomausstieg-als-geschaeftsmodell-fuer-die-atomkonzerne/



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