Disability Rights Activists Are Even Invisible Getting Arrested on Capitol HillPosted by Janine Jackson on 05/06/11 at 4:13 pmElite media?s selective disdain for public activism is well known. Still, you?d think some things would garner a word or two. Like 300 disability rights activists, a couple hundred in wheelchairs, occupying the rotunda of the Cannon House Office Building … [Read more...] about Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting Blog: Disability Activists and more
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Radiation for Children’s Day: Japan Callously Puts Thousands of Kids in Harm’s Way
By ROBERT ALVAREZMay 5 is Children's Day, a Japanese national holiday that celebrates the happiness of childhood. This year, it will fall under a dark, radioactive shadow.Japanese children in the path of radioactive plumes from the crippled nuclear reactors at the Fukushima Dai-Ichi power station are likely to suffer health problems that a recent government action will only … [Read more...] about Radiation for Children’s Day: Japan Callously Puts Thousands of Kids in Harm’s Way
メアの開き直り
◎ケビン・メアの開き直り＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝コロラド州ボルダー市在住のパンタ笛吹氏から届けられた続投速報第四弾。（宮前ゆかり/TUP）米国務省日本部長ケビン・メア氏が「沖縄県民は怠け者でゆすりの名人」と発言した問題は、地震や津波の報道の陰に隠れ、今はもうどのメディアも取り上げてはいない。あれほど沖縄県民の気持ちを逆なでしたのだから、問題の張本人は反省をしていると思っていた。しかし近ごろ行われたビデオインタビューで、メア氏は自分の発言を完全に否定した。「あれは学生がでっちあげた偽造文書のようなものだ」と開き直ったのである。ウソで塗り固められた米国外交に、またもう一つウソが上塗りされたと感じるのは、私だけだろうか。翻訳・前書き：パンタ笛吹＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝＝ … [Read more...] about メアの開き直り
“Smearing Japan” (latest on former diplomat Kevin Maher’s insults towards Okinawans)
(Update on Maher: After the 3/11/11 disasters, Maher joined the U.S. military’s “Operation Tomodachi.” He will be meeting 30 Japanese politicians from Japan, when they visit Washington D.C. from May 1-5, 2011. The contingent includes Okinawan MP Mikio Shimoji, whose family construction business benefits from military contracts, )Originally posted at Foreign Policy in … [Read more...] about “Smearing Japan” (latest on former diplomat Kevin Maher’s insults towards Okinawans)