Fukushima

Can Chaos Be Good? – Questions For Corbett #040

[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/qfc040-lq.mp3"][/audio]Why don't the Saudis sell Aramco to China? How will Japan cope with Iranian oil sanctions? Are Atta and the 9/11 "hijackers" just Lee Harvey Oswald? And can the chaos on the global chessboard be a good thing? Find out in this month's exciting installment of Questions For Corbett!

Move Over Chernobyl, Fukushima is Now Officially the Worst Nuclear Power Disaster in History

By John Laforge | CounterPunch | April 27, 2018 The radiation dispersed into the environment by the three reactor meltdowns at Fukushima-Daiichi in Japan has exceeded that of the April 26, 1986 Chernobyl catastrophe, so we may stop calling it the “second worst” nuclear power disaster in history. Total atmospheric releases from Fukushima are estimated […]

The Eyes of “Others” for Us All

For every immigrant, speaking about his or her home country can be somewhat emotional and personal. For us immigrants,  the experiences of leaving former identities framed in memories of the land, people, smells, tastes, smiles, laughter, tears and other feelings wrapped in the native tongues and rebuilding our own personhoods in foreign words, foreign-scapes, foreign frameworks held together with the values, beliefs and norms of others gives us a special opportunity to see our world dimensionally.