ZOMBIE NUKE PLANTS
by CHRISTIAN PARENTI[reposted from The Nation]Oyster Creek Generating Station, in suburban Lacey Township, New Jersey, opened the same month Richard Nixon took office vowing to bring "an honorable peace" to Vietnam. This nuke plant, the oldest in the country, was slated to close in 2009 when its original forty-year license was ending. It had seen four decades of service, using radioactively

The Secret War in Pakistan
Blackwater's Secret War in Pakistanby JEREMY SCAHILL [reposted from The Nation]At a covert forward operating base run by the US Joint Special Operations Command (JSOC) in the Pakistani port city of Karachi, members of an elite division of Blackwater are at the center of a secret program in which they plan targeted assassinations of suspected Taliban and Al Qaeda operatives, "snatch and grabs" of

Book Notice: Without Fidel
Bardach, Ann Louise. Without Fidel: A Death Foretold in Miami, Havana, and Washington. Scribner. 2009. c.288p. index. ISBN 978-1-4165-5150-8. $28. INT AFFAIRS [fom LibraryJournal.com]Journalist Bardach (Cuba Confidential: Love and Vengeance in Miami and Havana) presents a fast-paced inside view of Castro’s Cuba without the political rhetoric of so many Cuba experts. Divided into three parts—"The

Film Review: "Precious"
by Eric GreenFilm Review: PreciousLee Daniels' "Precious" Is a Film MasterpieceFilm producer and promoter, Lee Daniels, returned to the directors chair, after his 2005 film effort, "Shadowboxer," by taking the book by Sapphire, "Push" and making an outstanding film: "Precious."The casting of Gabourey 'Gabby" Sidibe as the lead character, "Precious", and Mo'Nique as her mother, "Mary," were

Capitalism and the Climate
[The world capitalist system just can't stop climate and atmosphere destruction-- we either get rid of capitalism or it gets rid of us-- i think its us that's going to go--tr]Emissions Increase Despite Financial CrisisScienceDaily (Nov. 22, 2009) — A new study from Norwegian and New Zealand scientists provides updated numbers for CO2 emissions from fossil fuels. While the global financial crisis