BOJ Fails to Contain Investor Panic as Nuclear Danger Rises (Keiko Ujikane and Mayumi Otsuma)

Mar. 15, 2011 (Bloomberg) -- The Bank of Japan’s step to provide short-term liquidity and expand an asset-purchase program failed to contain investor panic today as the risk of nuclear radiation leak ...

Humanitarian crisis deepens in Japan (Yoko Kubota)

Millions of people in Japan are spending a fourth night without water, food or heating, as tens of thousands of rescue workers struggle to reach them Mar. 15, 2011 -- RIKUZENTAKATA, Japan (Reuters) - ...

Let me remind you of something crucial when it comes to nuclear power incidents and accidents: They lie (MadHound)

Mar. 13, 2011 (Democratic Underground) -- People lie. When it comes to nuclear incidents and accidents, plant owners, government officials, and the media lie. If they can't cover up an incident, they ...

Japan scrambles to avert nuclear meltdown (Taiga Uranaka and Ki Joon Kwon)

Mar. 13, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- Japan fought on Sunday to avert a disastrous meltdown at two earthquake-crippled nuclear reactors as estimates of the death toll from the tsunami that c ...

Radiation leaking from Japan's quake-hit nuclear reactor (Chris Meyers and Kim Kyung-hoon)

Mar. 12, 2011 -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) -- FUKUSHIMA, Japan (Reuters) - Radiation leaked from a damaged Japanese nuclear reactor on Saturday after an explosion blew the roof off in the wake of a ...

A Neoconservative ‘Shock and Awe’: The Rise of the Arabs (Ramzy Baroud)

Ramzy Baroud -- World News Trust Mar. 10, 2011 -- A pervading sense of awe seems to be engulfing Arab societies everywhere. What is underway in the Arab world is greater than simply revolution in a p ...

Obama Makes Indefinite Detention and Military Commissions His Own (Dafna Linzer)

A group of detainees kneeling during morning prayer in their camp at the U.S. military prison for "enemy combatants" in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba. (AFP/John Moore) Mar. 8, 2011 (ProPublica) -- President O ...

Ronald McDonald and Other Clowns (David Glenn Cox)

David Glenn Cox -- World News Trust Mar. 9, 2010 -- Libya's Muammar Qaddafi announced the other day that the problems in Libya were being caused by, are you sitting down? Al Qaeda. It sounds absurd, ...

Obama's Guantánamo Policy: Legally and Morally Corrupt (Karen Greenberg)

A US flag waves within the razorwire-lined compound of Camp Delta prison at Guantánamo Bay in 2006. (Photograph: Brennan Linsley/Pool/Reuters) The White House insists it's making the best of a bad lo ...

How to Read Gates’s Shift on the Wars (Ray McGovern)

Mar. 3, 2011 (Information Clearing House) -- In Establishment Washington, Defense Secretary Robert Gates enjoys a charmed life based on a charming persona. The Fawning Corporate Media (FCM) is always ...

Behind the Arab Revolt Is a Word We Dare Not Speak (John Pilger)

Former CIA officer Ray McGovern. (Photo: Cheryl Biren) Feb. 24, 2011 (truth-out.org) -- Shortly after the invasion of Iraq in 2003, I interviewed Ray McGovern, one of an elite group of CIA officers w ...