Japan’s Dangerous, Immoral, Illegal, Radioactive Dumping – 2 Articles
“Japan’s Insane Immoral, Illegal Radioactive Dumping”. Also: “Is the Release of Radioactive Contaminated Water from the Fukushima Nuclear Site to the Sea Acceptable? Is it Safe?”
Drone Warfare: Killing in the Name of Precision – 2 Articles
The strategists and proponents of drone warfare promised a kind of war that would leave the 3D—“dull, dirty, and dangerous”—aspects of combat to machines. Instead, they have brought us to a point where despair, destruction, and disorder have emerged as the most tangible outcomes.
Petro’s Government One Year In
The election of Colombia’s first leftist president marked a fundamental shift in the country’s political landscape. Has Petro’s administration fulfilled its pledges one year into office?
Unprecedented Wildfires; Summer of 2023 Hottest Ever Recorded – 2 Articles
“Breaking heat records has become the norm in 2023,” said one scientist. “Global warming continues because we have not stopped burning fossil fuels. It is that simple.” Also: an article on this year’s utterly unprecedented wildfire season in Canada.
The Birth of Dialectics in Ancient Greece
The inspired insights of the first materialists in antiquity laid the foundations of modern science.
Highways or Rural Roads, It’s a Story of High Cost-Low Delivery
Two recent reports reveal a picture of missed targets, huge cost escalation, misconceived plans and a sense of disarray that is quite contrary to the impression that the government is efficiently going about creating essential infrastructure for the country.
Rojava: A Beacon of Solidarity, Cooperation and Progress
In one corner of Syria — the northern border regions known to the Kurds as Rojava — hope for a better world lives on. Bordered on all sides by hostile reactionary forces, Rojava stands defiantly as a beacon for human solidarity, cooperation, and progress.
Shooting the Messenger: Adverse Health Trends Revealed in the NFHS (5) 2019-2021
In a bizarre development, the government has ‘suspended’ the director of the institute responsible for carrying out the periodic NFHS. The fifth report of the Survey, relating to 2019-21, showed substantial worsening of some health indicators for children and women in particular.
Parakala Prabhakar: ‘Cylinders to the Poor, Airports to a Friend’
The political economist does not mince words or try to deflect blame away from Prime Minister Narendra Modi. He calls him staggeringly incompetent. But at the same time, he also says that democracy is a shared responsibility of all citizens, and so also says: “It is us, as a people, who must ultimately take the blame.”
Eritrea Celebrates Freedom
Eritrea is a small nation on the Horn of Africa with a population of only 6 million people. In 1991 it emerged as an independent country after years of war with Ethiopia and is decidedly socialist, which is why the U.S. has remained so hostile to its existence.