The Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank, AIIB , ( 亚洲基础设施投资银行 or 亚投行 ) is just now finishing its drive for founding membership (31 March ...

The Fukushima nuclear plant is highly dangerous. It's dangerously unstable. The Mark I containment structure and spent fuel rods are ...

Trans-Pacific Piracy , the TPP agreement, hugely threatens self-determination. We're being forced to accept corporate controls. Elite...

Rastafari can celebrate the advent of Indiana's "religious freedom law" (SENATE ENROLLED ACT No. 101) by rolling a big splif...

The recent Germanwings air crash in the French Alps is being described now as a deliberate act (link); the dead co-pilot had a "psycho...

Trans-Pacific Piracy Big corporations seek to bind a dozen national governments to the new TPP agreement . The shackles will severely hur...

Too often it seems our political economy shuts out the common citizenry: huge corporate interests manipulate our politicians and dominate c...

The Foreign Ministers of Japan, South Korea & China have been meeting together, finding areas of agreement and building a groundwork fo...

The USA is frightened of East Asia finding common ground & co-prosperity. Discussions find Yankee somehow pushing in... Today'...

20 March 1995 I had an early appointment at a western Tokyo university. I walked from my home to Kasuga subway station, then rode a packed ...

Israeli PM Netanyahu, facing a tight election, tried to position his opponents as Arab-leaning, and promised never to allow a "two-sta...

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Can Israel cast-off the rightwing shackles of Netanyahu - Lieberman? HOPE The present belligerent government suffers economically, and ...

Self-absorbed people in the USA have some sense of how Vietnamese and Venezuelan people, Haitians & Hondurans, comparatively are more p...

I don't like President Barack Obama... but there's much more to dislike about Mitt Romney, the arrogant Republican who lost the 201...

Militarism is expensive. Costs are more than monetary -- including many forms of continuing trauma and death. Afghanistan intervention co...

Law should clearly reflect well-considered public opinion & basic human rights. Society's dreams tempered with good judgement. In...

American military forces based overseas may not be arrogant, but they're an occupying power, and some local people despise & resist...

The terrible slashing incident injuring US Ambassador Mark Lippert in Seoul, Korea (link) plus anti-military activism in Okinawa, Japan , ...

Top fat-cat US Republican lawmakers are usually calculating & unemotional - they've shut down America for unpaid bills, funded deat...

" The White House admits ... disclosures about US spying have caused diplomatic tension with America's allies "        --- B...

Look carefully at this photo . The green display is designed to show the amount of radiation along Japan's newly-opened Joban nukeway ...

In Korea the new school year began yesterday (Monday 2nd March). Look at photos in this linked article: an elementary school with only on...

Tokyo's 2020 Olympics will be the most expensive ever. Fukushima nuclear pollution must not cloud the games - face the problem & l...

Japan celebrates the world's only nukeway - you can drive your vehicle through atomic radiation, including 8-km (5 miles) within the F...

Just noticed the following in a BBC news article : [ quote ] Washington rejected the accusations as ludicrous. [ unquote ] Mmmm. Lu...

Don't be deceived by those selling nuclear development 'opportunity' -- offers of jobs & money mean nothing when poisoned (...

Shiny seaside rain Flowers for the family Gaza internees Collective clearance Punish everyone non-Jew Prisoners Of War.

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If you live in America, in exchange for web access, your internet provider seeks to suck you dry. Net neutrality opponents such as Verizon ...