Nuclear waste should be placed in the backyard of the multinationals

The idea of dumping nuclear waste material on Aboriginal land is being resisted, and rightly so. The question unanswered in the ABC Radio piece below is which local and foreign companies would financially benefit from this if it moves forward. I’m investigating: TONY EASTLEY: Plans to build a national nuclear waste facility in a remote…

Arundhati Roy challenges the Indian state

The stance of a brave human rights believer, writer and journalist: For her talk… on Kashmir, writer Arundhati Roy has come under the threat of “sedition” charges in India. These speeches… are currently being analyzed by… Delhi police. Her response to the threat is below and was issued from Srinagar: I write this from Srinagar, Kashmir. This morning’s…

Israel embraces corruption and yet the world embraces Israel

So Israel is racist and corrupt, that’s quite a combination. Must make so many Zionists very proud: Israel ranks among the most corrupt countries in the Western world, according to a study released by the International Transparency Organization on Tuesday. Out of 178 countries – 1 being least corrupt – Israel was listed at number…

Wikileaks revelations? Nothing to see here, says WPost

The US corporate press has spent years suppressing the crimes and excesses of the US military in Iraq and Afghanistan – the Washington Post’s former Baghdad bureau chief says that Wikileaks proves the US administration has been lying for years – and yet this Washington Post editorial says everybody should just calm down and move…

UK shows us civilised folk how to enforce nakedness

Iran tortures people and makes them suffer in detention. We in the West are nice and pure, believing in the rule of law. Oh, but wait a minute: The British military has been training interrogators in techniques that include threats, sensory deprivation and enforced nakedness in an apparent breach of the Geneva conventions, the Guardian…

Finding Serco staff involved in unaccountable abuse; all in a day’s work

The reach of private company Serco is global and its human rights record remains abysmal. Yet it continues receiving lucrative contracts. That should stop: Prison campaigners last night called for a review of a North-East secure unit after revelations that 21 children had suffered injuries while being restrained. The injuries were sustained by children at…

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