Category: International

NATO ponders putting ground troops in Libya

Russia Today – Italy will host the next major international meeting on Libya. Leaders from NATO and the Arab league will gather this Thursday to plan the political transition following the departure or ousting of Libyan leader Mamuamar Gaddafi. And…

From Hiroshima to Fukushima: Hubris and Tragedy

by Anthony J. Hall, Professor of Globalization Studies University of Lethbridge From Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945 to the witches brew of melting, spewing and exploding nuclear matter at Fukushima Nuclear Power Plant Number One, the history of humanity’s first…

After Sendai

By Richard Falk, Counterpunch, Mar. 18-20, 2011 After atomic bombs were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki there was in the West, especially the United States, a short triumphal moment, crediting American science and military prowess with bringing victory over Japan…

The Body Baggers of Iraq

By Chris Hedges, Truthdig, March 21, 2011 Jess Goodell enlisted in the Marines immediately after she graduated from high school in 2001. She volunteered three years later to serve in the Marine Corps’ first officially declared Mortuary Affairs unit, at…