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Mr President Obama
The White House
1600 Pennsylvania Avenue N.W.
Washington DC 20500
Mr President,
A few weeks ago I had a dream. The five Cubans, Gerardo Hernández, Antonio Guerrero, Fernando González, Ramón Labañino and René González, had been transferred to the penitentiary at Guantanamo, and, on the Fourth of July, to celebrate the independence of your country, you had signed the law definitively abandoning the Platt Amendment. By returning Guantanamo Base to Cuba, Mr (…)

Zivadin Jovanovic President of the Belgrade Forum for a World of Equals THERE ARE NO HUMANITARIAN WARS
The World of today is undergoing profound changes from uni-polar to multi-polar order. Faced with the growing financial, economic and social crisis the developed part of the world is trying to overcome the consequences by trying to redirect the burden of crises to the rest of the world. International economic, (…)

If there is one universal question that haunts all human beings at some point in their lives, it is, “Why do we die?”
Death, after all, is the great illogic. It ultimately claims all, the rich and the poor, the mighty and the small, the good and the evil. Death also has the capability to make most human pursuits—such as the quest for wealth, fame and power—vacuous and fleeting.
Given this reality, I have often wondered why so many people are still willing to exploit, and even destroy, (…)

Radioactive Inventory Numbers (San Francisco) – Dr. Paolo Scampa, PhD, a well-known physicist in the European Union, has prepared a radioactive inventory of Fukushima Daiichi’s destroyed nuclear power plants 500 days after the meltdown of three disemboweled, mangled reactors.
The violent extinction level event occurred Mar 11, 2011. The deadly meltdown and dispersion of radioactive fuel throughout the world is on-going to this day. Because of the nature of long-lived and short-lived (…)

The 2012 London Olympic Games were preceded by an Opening Ceremony that controversially involved a social history of the ordinary people of England since the start of the Industrial Revolution in the middle of the 18th century. Unfortunately the Opening Ceremony considered only the several score English subjects of the English Establishment and ignored the horrendous maltreatment of hundreds of millions of other subjects of the ruthless British Empire.
On 28 July 2012 the UK magazine the (…)

Seventeen months after the earthquake and tsunami that destroyed the Tokyo Electric Power Company’s six–reactor complex at its Fukushima Daiichi, discussions continue about the possible effects of the radiation “dusting” the prefecture’s inhabitants received, and their consequences. Far outside most media coverage, 2012 is shaping up to be the media battleground between the massed proponents of the ongoing ‘safety’ of nuclear power, as opposed to a motley coalition of environmentalists, (…)

AUSTRALIA and INTERNATIONAL
Makes ya proud to be Australian! The latest computer worm success - an attack on Iran’s nuclear facilities - featured Australian band AC/DC, making computers play “Thunderstruck” at full volume in the middle of the night.
In Australia and in UK and in USA - a big push by the nuclear lobby to sell the public on a new gimmick. It’s a kind of alchemy. The plan is to turn plutonium into gold, and involves nuclear reprocessing, and new PRISM nuclear reactors (…)

“The Memory of Love” by Aminatta Forna (Bloomsbury, London , 2010) is a beautifully written and immensely readable novel about love, betrayal and deep trauma that is set in impoverished Sierra Leone today but informed by awful civil war events over the last 3 decades. The title derives from the intensity of remembered love of key character surgeon, Dr Kai Mansaray, that the author compares to the remembrance of pain of an amputated limb: “the aching ghost of a hewn hand or foot… The pain is (…)

It has been a week of protests - so intense that the mainstream media has felt obliged to actually cover them. In Australia, the Lizards Revenge http://lizardsrevenge.net/ brought hundreds of protestors for a festival of music, entertainment and information to the very heart of the uranium industry - BHP’s Olympic Dam mine in South Australia. A massive police and security presence did not bring about the violence (that the media might have enjoyed).
The Anti-Nuclear Alliance of Western (…)

US and NATO leaders are laying the groundwork for open western military intervention in Syria. It is unclear to what extent covert intervention is already taking place — through funding, arming and advising some of the opposition groups, and by special services operations in Syria — but Tariq Ali’s view is that it is extensive. See What is really happening in Syria? http://bit.ly/NtXQlu).
Economic sanctions are being intensified, which, as we saw in Iraq, can be the prelude to military (…)