Fukushima utility: We could have prevented nuclear meltdowns We failed. TEPCO president Naomi Hirose led the internal task force that wrote the report damning the company’s readiness. The utility that owns the Fukushima…
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Book V of Aristotle’s Politics describes the eternal transition of oligarchies making themselves into hereditary aristocracies – which end up being overthrown by tyrants or develop internal rivalries as some families decide to “take the…
Arabs betrayed Syrian insurgents, FSA member says Members of the self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army (file photo) A foreign-sponsored Syrian insurgent has accused some Arab countries of betraying the self-proclaimed Free Syrian Army (FSA)…
NAM Urges UN to Stop Israel from Violating International Law in the Occupied Palestinian Territories
The Non-Aligned Movement (NAM) has called on the United Nations Security Council to stop Israel from violating international law in the occupied Palestinian territories. Iran’s ambassador to the United Nations, Mohammad Khazaei, read…
The Chinese – Japanese raw over the Diaoyu or Senkaku islands is overshadowing Taiwan´s territorial claims over the rocky islands, 120 nautical miles from its coast, in the East China Sea. Since Japan signed the…
China’s currency hit a record high against the US dollar on Friday, in what analysts said could be a response to US political pressure over claims the yuan is vastly undervalued. The upcoming US…
An anti-war protest was held in the Turkish capital Ankara on October 9, 2012. A recent opinion poll has revealed that more than 75 percent of the Turkish people are against a war with…
WMR has discovered CIA files that document the agency’s connections to institutions and individuals figuring prominently in the lives of Barack Obama and his mother, father, grandmother, and stepfather. President Obama’s own work in 1983…
One month after the deaths of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and three other Americans in the assault on the US consulate and a CIA facility in the eastern Libyan city of Benghazi, the incident…
The Real Reason America Used Nuclear Weapons Against Japan: It Was Not To End the War Or Save Lives.
Atomic Weapons Were Not Needed to End the War or Save Lives Like all Americans, I was taught that the U.S. dropped nuclear bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in order to end WWII and save…