VIDEO: How much radiation is hitting North America from Fukushima? Quite a lot, apparently (dutchsinse)

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Human Intelligence and the Environment (Noam Chomsky)

May 10, 2011 (International Socialist Review) -- I’ll begin with an interesting debate that took place some years ago between Carl Sagan, the well-known astrophysicist, and Ernst Mayr, the grand old ...

Enabling Acts (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust May 7, 2011 -- I’ve been watching a magic trick, just another of many that I’ve witnessed over the years. Funny thing about magic tricks is that even though you do ...

Fukushima Reactors Are a 'Ticking Time Bomb,' Japanese Govt in Denial (Michio Kaku)

Scientist Michio Kaku: When we hear "that things are stable, it’s only stable in the sense that you’re dangling from a cliff hanging by your fingernails." Democracy Now Apr. 13, 2011 AMY GOODMAN: Jap ...

Fukushima radiation taints US milk supplies at levels 300% higher than EPA maximums (Ethan A. Huff)

Apr. 11, 2011 (NaturalNews) -- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) continues to release new data showing that various milk and water supply samples from across the United States are testing ...

Japan's Nuclear Volcano Erupts (Mike Whitney)

Apr. 12, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- Shares plunged across Europe and Asia Tuesday as the crisis at Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant deepened and Japan’s Nuclear and Industrial Safety Agency ...

Radiation Detected In Drinking Water In 13 More US Cities, Cesium-137 In Vermont Milk (Jeff McMahon)

Apr. 11, 2011 (Forbes) -- Radiation from Japan has been detected in drinking water in 13 more American cities, and cesium-137 has been found in American milk --in Montpelier, Vermont -- for the first ...

'No safe levels' of radiation in Japan (Dahr Jamail)

Experts warn that any detectable level of radiation is "too much." According to the US Department of Energy, no level of radiation is so low that it is without health risks Apr. 4, 2011 (Al Jazeera) ...

Japan nuclear operator aims for cold shutdown in 6-9 months (Taiga Uranaka)

TOKYO (Reuters) - Japanese nuclear power plant operator Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO) hopes it will be able to achieve cold shutdown of its crippled Fukushima Daiichi nuclear plant within six to n ...

Military Tribunal May Keep 9/11 Motives Hidden (Ray McGovern)

Apr. 6, 2011 (CommonDreams.org) -- The Obama administration’s decision to use a military tribunal rather than a federal criminal court to try alleged 9/11 mastermind Khalid Sheikh Mohammed and four o ...

Japan says it may take months to end radiation leaks (Chizu Nomiyama and Yoko Nishikawa)

4:02 p.m. EDT, Apr. 3, 2011 -- TOKYO (Reuters) -- Japan warned Sunday it could take months to stop radiation leaking from a nuclear plant crippled by a huge earthquake and tsunami three weeks ago, wh ...