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Click to read, with links on Fukushima, Okinawa, Homelessness, N. Korea and more...All these stories are from our links at the bottom of the main page. We will shortly resume publishing our own summaries.JAPAN DISASTER BLOG Pt 1-Japanese Expert Says Fukushima II (not I) Nuke Plant's Containment Vessel Has Been Damaged by the Quake-Fuku-I Nuke Plant Blowout Panel Mystery: Were They Really Welded-...
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They have been going on for more than half a month, but only attracted media attention when a rabid police official sprayed pepper gas on severeal non violent protestors. What SHOULD be news but is absent from the mainstream media is any analysis of why the young, increadingly joined by older people, workers, the unemployed, those whose homes have been repossessed, etc. are out there. Here...
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生命に対する特許をめぐる問題: こ れまで世界中のほぼすべての文化・宗教において、神からの神聖なる贈りものとして扱われてきた生命は、いまや人間の「創造物」として扱われるようになり つつあります。つまり、遺伝子や化学物質などが、遺伝子工学技術を使って組み換えたり、特許取得者が売買したりする対象になっているのです。企業は生物 を、利益のために好き勝手に乱用してもよい物品とみなしています。いま、生命の多様性は、これまでにない大きな危機にさらされています。私たち人間の生活 に欠かすことのできない食品や医薬品などが次つぎと、種子の遺伝子や病気の原因遺伝子などの特許奪取に奔走している、数社の巨大企業の支配下におかれるよ うになってきています。たとえばある企業が、エイズのような病気を引き起こす遺伝子を分離し、病気に対する治療法の開発に成功した場合、その企業は巨額の...
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TOKYOPROGRESSIVE REFUSES COOPERATION WITH PAYPAL AND AMAZON --OUR BOOKSHOP IS CLOSED-- Amazon, Paypal, Visa, the Swiss Post Office and other institutions have blocked the accounts of Wikileaks or taken down their servers. Accordingly, we refuse to cooperate with them and TokyoProgressive is not taking donations until such time as they reverse their decisions. Although our major expense...
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October 21, 2010 By George MonbiotGeorge Monbiot's ZSpace Page / ZSpaceWe’ve been staring at the wrong list. In an effort to guess what will hit us tomorrow, we’ve been trying to understand the first phase of the British government’s assault on the public sector: its bonfire of the quangos. Almost all the public bodies charged with protecting the environment, animal welfare and consumers have...
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From AlterNet / By Anneli Rufus Why Are People Willing to Fork Out a Fortune for Shoes That Cost Little to Make? Shoes spur cravings, compulsions and crimes as no other clothing does, and the true cost of making them is just as surprising. October 1, 2010 | Shoes are fashion's version of drugs. More than any other article of clothing, shoes alter the way we move, walk...
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Science Academies in India lobby to push GM crops in India By Devinder Sharma at Sep 27, 2010 Change Text Size a- | A+ I still can't overcome my disbelief. Such 'distinguished' scientific bodies from India, and such a shoddy report. I have always said there is good science, there is bad science but this report transgresses all earlier known brackets, and I have no...
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Natural Resources Gulf Dispersants: BP and Nalco Play Toxic Roulette Terry J. Allen July 19th, 2010 BP has dumped almost two million gallons of dispersants from Nalco in the Gulf of Mexico that is disguising the extent of the Deepwater spill and the inability of existing technology to mitigate the disaster. Even if BP eventually staunches the hemorrhage of oil, devastating toxins will linger...
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by Steve Connor, Science Editor of The IndependentThis story does not necessarily reflect the views of TokyoProgressive An insecticide used in genetically modified (GM) crops grown extensively in the United States and other parts of the world has leached into the water of the surrounding environment.Activists fly a kite to protest against the cultivation of genetically modified maize. (AFP)The...
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Recently Roger Pulvers wrote a piece criticizing JT saying that smoking does not cause cancer, followed by a rebuttal by JT claiming that it never said any such thing. Hideyuki Yamamoto of JT lled. In fact, the very same person quoted recently by Pulvers, a Toshimasa Kurita, said it in 2007, in this piece by Al Jazeera (Pulvers' article and the JT rebuttal afre below this): By...
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April 19, 2010 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Underattended "Run for Water" plagued by death scenes, zombies, and dozens of "Dow spokesmen"; truth seems to run free Video: Yes Men video here; other video here Stills: Yes Men pictures here; numerous others here Contact: Whitney Black (803)466-3786; press@theyesmen.org Brooklyn, NY -- Bucolic Prospect park in Brooklyn, NY played host to a...
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by Rose Ann DeMoro Executive Director, National Nurses United, AFL-CIO and California Nurses AssociationPassage of President Obama's healthcare bill proves that Congress can enact comprehensive social legislation in the face of virulent rightwing opposition. Now that we have an insurance bill, can we move on to healthcare reform? As an organization of registered nurses, we have an...
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Pro-single-payer doctors: Health bill leaves 23 million uninsured-23,000 unnecessary deaths annually
For Immediate Release March 22, 2010 Contact:Oliver Fein, M.D.Steffie Woolhandler, M.D., M.P.H.David Himmelstein, M.D.Margaret Flowers, M.D.Mark Almberg, PNHP, (312) 782-6006, mark@pnhp.org The following statement was released today by leaders of Physicians for a National Health Program, www.pnhp.org. Their signatures appear below. As much as we would like...
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More critiques of the health care bill acknowledging the good as well as the ugly (several articles)
A cause for celebration?Alan Maass (Socialist Worker) examines the claims made about the Democrats' health care legislation. March 24, 2010LAST SUNDAY night around 10 p.m., I was finishing up the next day's edition of SocialistWorker.org when my e-mail inbox started filling up like a casino slot machine finally paying off. The subject lines all had the same theme: "Historic legislation..." "...
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By Paul Street from ZNETCorporate health “reform” has gotten the congressional votes it needed and the public relations spin is on. Now that the “deeply conservative” Barack Obama[1] and his fellow corporate Democrats have pushed their big business-friendly measure – devoid of any public insurance option to counter the power of the insurance oligopoly– through the House and Senate, the...
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