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Tepco’s License to Kill: Dispersal of Radioactive Waste as Disaster Response

August 30, 2023 Carma Henry 0

     This deliberate contamination of the public commons is a license to kill, a criminally reckless endangerment of sea life and the food web. Yet the 1992 ban on ocean dumping of radioactive waste applies only to barrels thrown from ships, not liquids sent into the sea through pipes. Further, the Law of the Sea allows victims to bring legal action only after an alleged harm has occurred, and then puts the burden of proof on victims to show that their illness(es) were caused by a particular radioactive poison. […]

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The Fukushima Tragedy Resurfaces

August 30, 2023 Carma Henry 0

     Just as all Americans remember 9/11, Japanese remember 3/11, the day in 2011 that an earthquake and tsunami overwhelmed the Fukushima Daiichi Nuclear Power Plant, destroying a town, poisoning a wide area around it, and raising questions about nuclear safety in much the same way as the Chernobyl nuclear accident had in 1986.  […]

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GOP Debate or Debacle

August 24, 2023 Carma Henry 0

    The GOP 2024  presidential nominees who‘ve qualified to participate in  the first  debate will stand before the American people, on national TV.  They’ll attempt to convince Republican Voters of their presidential leadership Prowess as well as  share their views towards solving major issues facing the Nation. Nevertheless, this event will constitute a debate or debacle based on questions asked, the responses provided, and the participants’ courage to attack America’s, as well as their own, greatest nemesis, Trump. […]

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$2.3 Trillion For Afghanistan And $0 For Black Folk

August 23, 2023 Carma Henry 0

     Besides having difficulty wrapping my head around how much money was spent – and how much was lost – in a cause many reputable political scientists have characterized as “American Adventurism in Afghanistan,” I became angry at the members of Congress who refuse to spend any tax dollars at all to help African Americans in our own country recover from the damage caused by centuries of slavery, racial abuse, and intentional neglect. […]

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Lahaina and Global Reality

August 23, 2023 Carma Henry 0

      Rotarian Al Jubitz, founder of the War Prevention Initiative, has pointed out an ill-starred coincidence: the town of Lahaina was burning on the anniversary day, even at the very hour (11:02 a.m. in Japan is 4:02 p.m. in Maui) that the United States dropped its second nuclear weapon on the people of Nagasaki back in 1945.  […]