Julian Assange, like Wilfred Burchett, fighting to reveal truths
Australian journalist Wilfred Burchett in the late 60s was banned from Australia….After the bombing of Japan at the end of the second world war he travelled to a site,..He observed that survivors of the blast were dying of radiation sickness…
…Assange has his rabid homicidal detractors, his vague accusers, and for a time was banned from entering Australia by the confused prime minister Julia Gillard. Both Assange and Burchett are, and were, fighting to reveal truths.
A precedent for Julian Assange’s predicament The Guardian, Bill Green 31 December 2010, Continue reading
In USA, renewable energy now 11%, nuclear 11%, of electricity
“Members of the incoming Congress are proposing to slash cost-effective funding for rapidly expanding renewable energy technologies while foolishly plowing ever-more federal dollars into the nuclear power black hole,”
Renewable Energy Almost Equals Nuclear Energy in USA, December 28, 2010, in Cleantech News, by John Addison, According to the most recent issue of the “Monthly Energy Review” by the U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA), “nuclear electric power accounted for 11% of primary energy production and renewable energy accounted for 11% of primary energy production” during the first nine months of 2010 (the most recent period for which data have been released). Continue reading
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of the week – Disrupting War & Militarism in Oceania. Active solidarity. Radical practice.
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