Posted by seumasach on May 7, 2012
Robert Alvarez
Huffington Post
22nd April, 2012
Spent reactor fuel, containing roughly 85 times more long-lived radioactivity than released at Chernobyl, still sits in pools vulnerable to earthquakes.
More than a year after the Fukushima nuclear power disaster began, the news media is just beginning to grasp that the dangers to Japan and the rest of the world are far from over. After repeated warnings by former senior Japanese officials, nuclear experts, and now a U.S. senator, it’s sinking in that the irradiated nuclear fuel stored in spent fuel pools amidst the reactor ruins pose far greater dangers than the molten cores. This is why:
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Posted by seumasach on May 5, 2012
Dr. Thorsten Pattberg
Global Research
4th May, 2012
A lot of people search endlessly for the secret key or a magic formula that would enable them to understand China. Naturally, at some point they will want to know how the Chinese are educated. The Middle kingdom has many prestigious schools, but let us take a closer look at Peking University, the mother lode of the Chinese wenming.
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Posted by seumasach on May 5, 2012
F.William Engdahl
Global Research
27th April, 2012
The prospect of an unparalleled Eurasian economic boom lasting into the next Century and beyond is at hand. The first steps binding the vast economic space are being constructed with a number of little-publicized rail links connecting China, Russia, Kazakhstan and parts of Western Europe. It is becoming clear to more people in Europe, Africa, the Middle East and Eurasia including China and Russia that their natural tendency to build these markets faces only one major obstacle: NATO and the US Pentagon’s Full Spectrum Dominance obsession. Rail infrastructure is a major key to building vast new economic markets across Eurasia.
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Posted by seumasach on May 5, 2012
Issa El Ayoubi
Voltairenet
4th May, 2012
During Nicolas Sarkozy’s five-year tenure, France has lost the prestige she enjoyed in Africa and the Middle East. That is why all those who love that country are wondering whether the change heralded by François Hollande will also apply to foreign policy? In the editorial reproduced below, the Syrian daily Al-Watan takes a positive view. The socialist leader judges the states in the region just as harshly as his predecessor but, true to his principles, he should put an end to the unholy Alliance between the “country of human rights” and the religious dictatorships of the Gulf.
The first round of the French presidential election is over and the second will take place next Sunday. The French people must choose their president for the next five years. They will not do so on the basis of our concerns, but of their own. They have paid little attention to international issues, even though the outgoing president has staked their future abroad. While the domestic crises they are facing are the result of foreign policy options, these have been absent from the public debate.
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Posted by seumasach on May 2, 2012
M.K.Bhadrakumar
1st May, 2012
India would have more than a cursory interest in Egypt’s presidential election Monday. Several opinion polls have shown two frontrunners – former foreign minister and Arab League secretary general Amr Moussa and the islamist leader Abdel Moneim Abol-Fotouh. Moussa of course was a former ambassador to India (1983-86). But then, Moussa has been openly disdainful of the shifts in the Indian foreign policy in the past decade.
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Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2012
Vijay Prashad
Asia Times
1st May, 2012
Last Thursday. the delegates at the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) came to the closing ceremony. It was delayed by a few hours because the final document needed to be translated. A short delay was acceptable. Far worse would have been deadlock on the final declaration. It would have delivered a victory to those who want to see UNCTAD’s ability to continue doing its work curtailed.
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Posted by seumasach on April 30, 2012
“how we get our banks lending, how we make sure the money goes into infrastructure, how we make it easier for businesses to employ people, how we boost our exports, how we make sure that manufacturing and the rebalancing in our economy takes place”, adding: “All of those things are on the table.”
Cameron continues to raise the same problems without presenting any solutions. Britain is engulfed in a downward spiral, adrift without leadership. In this context, the Eurozone, which we have failed to destroy despite all our efforts, provides a convenient scapegoat.
Guardian
29th April, 2012
David Cameron on Sunday held out the prospect of the UK economy being dragged down for years, as he predicted the euro crisis was “nowhere near half complete” and warned the single currency may yet break up. He also admitted efforts to move the UK economy away from dependence on the City and the public sector were not going fast enough.
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Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2012
WSJ
26th April, 2012
FRANKFURT (Dow Jones)–Roland Berger Strategy Consultants is close to launching a European rating agency, the company said Thursday.
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Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2012
Ahram
28th April, 2012
The Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF) has agreed with political parties in a meeting on Saturday on six main criteria by which the constituent assembly tasked with drafting Egypt’s new constitution will be formed.
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Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2012
Today’s Zaman
29th April, 2012
Gunmen in inflatable dinghies killed several security officials in an attack on a military unit on Syria’s Mediterranean coast, state media said on Saturday, the first seaborne assault reported during the revolt against President Bashar al-Assad.
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Posted by seumasach on April 29, 2012
Middle East Online
28th April, 2012
SELAATA (Lebanon) – The Lebanese navy intercepted three containers of weapons destined for Syrian rebel forces on board a ship originating from Libya, a security official said on Saturday.
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