Wednesday, October 11, 2006
OtherOct2006
Giving Terrorism a Reason to Exist
The war in Iraq: creating terrorism
More Dissention in the Ranks
U.S. soldier refuses to fight
The Vocabulary of Fascism
“Over time it’s going to be important for nations to know they will be held accountable for inactivity. You’re either with us or against us in the fight against terror.”
– George W. Bush, 2001
“My party comrades, today the swastika forces the world to take a position for or against us. The world must decide, it has no choice. There can be no compromise.”
– Dr. Robert Ley, Nazi Reich Organization Leader, 1939
The War, Palestine and Clean Energy
Going beyond Disease to Address Disability
Nike to the Rescue? Africa needs better jobs, not sweatshops
Japanese2006Oct
安倍訪中と北朝鮮の核実験 (２００６年１０月１７日 田中 宇)
Japanese-Eng2006Oct
Still Taboo After All These Years: Japan’s new imperial heir and the media
William Pfaff: When will the 5 Original Nuclear Powers Get RId of THEIR Nuclear Weapons?
Japan Focus Nuclear Weapons section
U.S. Neo-Conservatives Call For Japanese Nukes, Regime Change in North Korea
The North Korean Problem, Japan and the U.S.: the Politics of Hypocrisy
Making Sense of the Korean Crisis (reprinted from 2004)
Targeting North Korea (repinted from 2004)
People’s News From Asia: Interlocals.net
Reactions to the North Korean test from around Asia
The Boom Heard Around the World
[F]our other countries officially--Britain, France, India and Pakistan--officially joined the nuclear club, with another, being Israel, unofficially a member. There was no alarm registered in Washington at Britain’s application for membership and very little at France’s. India and Pakistan provoked a bit of a shock, but nothing truly substantial changed in their relationship with the US. The outcry from other nations not considered friends of Washington was less positive. At the same time, they couldn’t help but notice that a nuclear enemy of Washington was much less likely to be attacked than a non-nuclear one.....
In fact, it was the failure of Washington to follow through on its end of the deal brokered by Clinton’s administration--a deal that would have provided northern Korea with light-water reactors capable of making energy but not weapons--that some say led to the impasse between the two capitals. However, it should be noted that Pyongyang had frozen the reactor where yesterday’s test fuel came from after 1994 under the terms agreed to by Washington and Pyongyang. Indeed, it was only after George Bush included Pyongyang in his so-called axis of evil that the reactor was started up again and the process that led to the nuclear test restarted.
Bush and North Korea
The crisis with North Korea was entirely avoidable for anyone with even minimal diplomatic skills and an elementary understanding of human psychology. Instead, the Bush troupe persisted for 6 years with the same inflexible policy nudging Kim ever-closer to producing his first nuclear weapon.Now, half the population of the United States is in the gun-sights of a madcap tyrant whose basic grasp of reality has always been seriously in doubt.
Welcome to the Nuclear Club
For the next four weeks, the Bush administration will do its best to exploit the North Korean nuclear test to stave off a loss of the Republican majority in Congress. We should not allow those efforts to obscure how Bush’s reckless record has heightened the nuclear dangers for everyone.
North Korea: Tomorrow May Never Come
North Korean Nuke Tests Say World Must Return to Peace Agenda
Here is another listing (partially the same) that contains more references to North Korea and Japan
Here is a listing that focues on Hiroshima, partially the same
Here is a listening that focues on Japan, North, South Korea and the U.S.
Abe’s “normal” Japan: a vision with a legacy
Abe supporter of right-wing textbook by “Tsukurukai”
Rising tide of conservatism threatens reproductive health and gender equality
Minoru Morita: Abe promises more of Koizumi’s Bush-style extremist politics
Abe and Ishihara promote censorship, anti-woman bias and repression
You can see LDP’s anti-women policy on “gender equality here
Monday, October 02, 2006
special article-pepsi and coke in india
Posison in your Coke and Pepsi? The news from India was shocking, until the media started reporting verbatim from press releases direct from these two big multinational corporations, which effectively limited the coverage to the “fact” that they contained “acceptable” amounts of dangerous chemicals. In addition, there is the question of misappropriation of drinking water, the percentage of water polluted in the process of creating the beverage, and als the question of ingredients that have become suspect worldwide as the world races heaqdlong into an obesity epidemic.
Read the press releases of the cola companies
Read a pro-cola news report from Fox, stressing that the ban was initiated in a “communist” state. This is the usual type of reporting from Fox: if it is about free enterprise and making the world safe for American corporations, Fox is behind it.
ARTICLES FROM THE CRITICS
CORP WATCH (using cached version due to web trouble)
Article by well known scientist, Vandana Shiva: Coke Pepsi and the Politics of Food Safety
special article-pepsi and coke in india
Posison in your Coke and Pepsi? The news from India was shocking, until the media started reporting verbatim from press releases direct from these two big multinational corporations, which effectively limited the coverage to the “fact” that they contained “acceptable” amounts of dangerous chemicals. In addition, there is the question of misappropriation of drinking water, the percentage of water polluted in the process of creating the beverage, and als the question of ingredients that have become suspect worldwide as the world races heaqdlong into an obesity epidemic.
Read the press releases of the cola companies
Read a pro-cola news report from Fox, stressing that the ban was initiated in a “communist” state. This is the usual type of reporting from Fox: if it is about free enterprise and making the world safe for American corporations, Fox is behind it.
ARTICLES FROM THE CRITICS
CORP WATCH (using cached version due to web trouble)
