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Fukushima Dai-Ichi Number 4 Reactor On Fire Again
03/15/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire The Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear power plant’s Number 4 reactor unit either remains on fire or has had a second flare up. As Dr. Rachel Maddow notes in the video clip attached, there is a great deal of suspicion when it comes to the people providing the information regarding the power plant. [...]
Too Late For Libya?
03-15-2011 by L. S. Carbonell While the United Nations, NATO, Western countries and even the Arab League dither around, the people of Libya are being slaughtered. Col. Qaddafi unleashed warships, airstrikes, missiles and artillery on the city of Ajdabiya, 340 miles east of Tripoli. It was the last major rebel stronghold before Benghazi. As the [...]
West Bank In Crisis
03-15-2011 by L. S. Carbonell In 1948, when the United Nations established the modern state of Israel, the country did not include the areas known as the West Bank, the Gaza Strip and the Golan Heights. The United Nations, suffering from a massive case of shortsightedness, refused to create a Palestinian state out of the [...]
Hilary Clinton In Cairo and Benghazi
03-15-2011 by L. S. Carbonell Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton is in Cairo meeting with the transitional government. Early Tuesday morning, local time, she made an unannounced trip into Libya to meet with opposition leaders there. Following that meeting, she announced that the United States will not support a no-fly zone, at least not [...]
Crisis At Fukushima Dai-ichi Getting Worse As Third Explosion Damages Critical Structure
03/14/11-by Bridgette P. LaVictoire Japan is a nation that knows something about the horrors of radiation. They remain the only nation to have been hit by a nuclear bomb. Now, a new nuclear disaster is looming, and this time, it is a combination of problems mostly triggered by a natural event. The third explosion to [...]
Tug Of War – Libyan Style
03-14-2011 by L. S. Carbonell An explanation has finally emerged for the confusing and conflicting reports of who controls what in Libya, along with an explanation of why the rebels so desperately want a no-fly zone imposed over their country. It is an explanation as old as organized warfare. Col. Qaddafi’s land troops are too [...]
Saudi Arabia Sends Troops To Bahrain
03-14-2011 by L. S. Carbonell After Tunisia, during Egypt, protests spread across the Middle East. In Bahrain, the Shia majority protested for greater representation in the Sunni-dominated government and an end to fast-track naturalization for Sunni immigrants who were getting most of the good jobs. Initially, Hamad bin Isa Al Khalifa, King of Bahrain since [...]
Mixed Signals About Troop Withdrawal From Afghanistan
03-14-2011 by L. S. Carbonell One of President Obama’s campaign promises was to bring our troops home from Iraq and Afghanistan. Though combat troops have been removed from Iraq, we are maintaining a presence there for security in the Green Zone and training of Iraqi police and army personnel. Afghanistan is going to be more [...]
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