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The New Mexico site of the world’s first atomic bomb test, codenamed Trinity had been selected, in part, for its supposed isolation. Yet in reality, nearly half-a-million people were living within a 150-mile radius of the explosion. All of them have been suffering from the effects of radiation ever since.
In the 12 years since the Fukushima meltdowns, Tepco’s disaster response efforts, always heralded as fixes, have been a series of hugely expensive failures. Also: “Despite Warnings, IAEA Approves Japan Release Plan for Contaminated Fukushima Water”.
For some villages, such as Bango, scores of people born disabled, bodies shrivelling at age 40, loss of land, property, and livelihood, are a normalised cry of pain.
“The Fukushima Disaster, The Hidden Side of the Story,” is a just-released film documentary, a powerful, moving, information-full film that is superbly made. Directed and edited by Philippe Carillo, it is among the strongest ever made on the deadly dangers of nuclear technology.
Small Modular Reactors (SMR) are the new nuclear craze, especially with the U.S. Congress. They are being advertised as a green deal for clean energy that skirts the heavy costs of paying the Middle East billions upon billions. However, the devil in the details is dangerously overlooked.
“G7 Leaders Gather in Hiroshima Amid Rising Threat of Nuclear War”: In a display of shameless hypocrisy, the leaders of the G7 laid wreaths at the Cenotaph for the Atomic Bomb Victims in Hiroshima. Also: “The Splendor of a Thousand Suns: Hiroshima and Imperial Forgetfulness”.
‘Radioactive: The Women of Three Mile Island’ is the title of a newly-released documentary feature film directed, written and produced by award-winning filmmaker Heidi Hutner. It brilliantly connects the proverbial dots of the 1979 Three Mile Island nuclear plant disaster.
John Pilger recalls the ‘electric’ opposition of writers and journalists to the coming war in the 1930s and investigates why today there is ‘a silence filled by a consensus of propaganda’ as the two greatest powers draw closer to conflict.
The Cuban initiative to provide healthcare to the children affected by the Chernobyl nuclear disaster took place during one of the most difficult times for Cuba. It represents an unparalleled globalization of solidarity.
This essay is based on the preface to a Turkish translation of ‘Socialism or Barbarism: From the “American Century” to the Crossroads’ by István Mészáros. It was written prior to the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Janata Weekly is India’s oldest independent socialist weekly.
Ever since its founding in 1946, Janata has voiced its principled dissent against all conduct and practice that is detrimental to the cherished values of nationalism, democracy, secularism and socialism, while upholding the integrity and the ethical norms of healthy journalism. For more than seventy years now, week after week, it has continued to analyse the changes taking place in the country and the world from a socialist standpoint, and thus promote the spread of socialist ideology in the country.
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