Archive | June, 2011

White House, Congressional Leaders Block Open Debate on Undeclared War With Libya | The Nation

1 Jun

Three wars, three, we’re fighting. Each one of them a waste of blood and treasure. Why this mania to fight wars?

The House was supposed to hold a debate Wednesday on Congressman Kucinich’s proposal to end U.S. involvement in the war in Libya. But the resolution was pulled from the floor calendar in a classic case of dereliction of duty.

Kucinich is not just disappointed. He is bluntly critical of the Obama White House and congressional leaders, who he suggests are avoiding the issue because they know that support for the Libyan project is dwindling.

via White House, Congressional Leaders Block Open Debate on Undeclared War With Libya | The Nation.

Planet Earth Doesn’t Know How To Make It Any Clearer It Wants Everyone To Leave | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source

1 Jun

Maybe a return to Truth and Traditions will get the Earth to change its mind:

Following a recent series of disastrous floods along the Mississippi River and destructive tornadoes across much of the United States—as well as a year of even deadlier natural catastrophes all over the world—the Earth said its options for strongly implying that it no longer wants human beings living on it have basically been exhausted.

via Planet Earth Doesn’t Know How To Make It Any Clearer It Wants Everyone To Leave | The Onion – America’s Finest News Source.

The New-Economy Movement | The Nation

1 Jun

But in the wake of the financial crisis, they [ideas and initiatives in socially and environmentally responsible economics] have proliferated and earned a surprising amount of support—and not only among the usual suspects on the left. As the threat of a global climate crisis grows increasingly dire and the nation sinks deeper into an economic slump for which conventional wisdom offers no adequate remedies, more and more Americans are coming to realize that it is time to begin defining, demanding and organizing to build a new-economy movement.

And:

At the cutting edge of experimentation are the growing number of egalitarian, and often green, worker-owned cooperatives. Hundreds of “social enterprises” that use profits for environmental, social or community-serving goals are also expanding rapidly. In many communities urban agricultural efforts have made common cause with groups concerned about healthy nonprocessed food.

via The New-Economy Movement | The Nation.

Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents

1 Jun

Lists of nuclear disasters and radioactive incidents.

Check it out, links to lists of military and civilian accidents, cancelled nuclear plants in the USA, lists anti-nuke protests in the USA, and lists of nuclear and radiation accidents throughout the world.

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