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Multiple Events Around Puget Sound for Peace and Nuclear Abolition this Week

Each D-5 missile costs approximately $60 million.

(SEATTLE) - Three different events are happening this week to raise awareness and engage people to work for a peaceful and nuclear weapons-free world.

Desperate Families Say Soviets Reacted More Efficiently to Chernobyl, than Japan to Fukushima

This could happen to anybody's little civilized community anywhere...

(FUKUSHIMA / SALEM) - When officials want to investigate what you do in your private life, they order a urine test.

But when urine tests might reveal high levels of nuclear radiation contamination, government suddenly loses interest in inspecting your bodily fluids, why is that? More importantly, is what is happening in Fukushima a Japanese problem, or everyone alive on this earth's problem?

The Fighting Father, a Christian Anarchist and God Part III

“You glorify the past, when the future dries up.”-U2, God Part II.

(CLERMONT, Fla.) - Native Australian, Professional boxer and social justice Anglican priest, Rev. David B. Smith is currently in the midst of a 17 day USA speaking tour that began in California and concludes in D.C.

While in Florida, Rev. Dave and this reporter got together around my kitchen table and began a two day conversation about God, Israel, Palestine, Zionism, Human Rights, Mordechai Vanunu, etc. and we began with a few of my theological questions...

Researcher calls Fukushima Radioactive Steam - `Nuclear Hell on Earth`

The news is far worse than what the governments and companies are revealing.

(SALEM, Ore.) - For almost three months the bad nuclear news has been shouting at us, warning us, but even the professionals in the area of toxicity are not abandoning their lives or homes.

Is it an everyone-goes-down-with-the-ship paradigm that has a hold on these people?

Petition Drive to Help Fukushima Residents forced by Japan to Enter Nuclear Contamination Area

Following the recent SOS from Fukushima families...

(FUKUSHIMA / SALEM) - There now is a petition in Japan to evacuate the people from Fukushima Prefecture. We reported over the weekend the tragic plight of residents being turned out of shelters and instructed to return to their homes in the affected area.

The petition can be found here: http://311fukushima.net/?page_id=93. And by the way, I have been staying true to these stories about petition drives and signing them before publishing, to ensure the integrity of the process. The form is written partly in English and partly in Japanese, but easy to follow.

S.O.S. From Fukushima: Silence is Deadly in Japan

Newly released video is an International plea for help from Fukushima residents.

(FUKUSHIMA / SALEM) - The people of Fukushima prefecture in Japan, are in trouble.

Abandoned by their own government; forced to return to their homes in this city of nuclear contamination, they are fearful for their children's futures and asking the world community for support.

Israeli Sex Suspect Accused of Blackmailing Young American Girls

I am left wondering whether Israel can possibly produce any good news.

(LONDON) - Y-Net reported this morning about the arrest of an Israeli man on suspicion of blackmailing some 100 US girls. The Israeli man was detained on suspicion of hacking the computers of the girls and threatening to circulate their intimate photos, unless they perform indecent acts on their webcam.

Almost 100 girls aged 12 to 17 were among the victims. . The Israel man  is believed to have hacked their computers, seeking embarrassing photographs and later approaching them on online social networks and threatening them.

Israel Fires on Two Americans off Gaza Coast

With Vittorio Arrigoni out of the way, Israel increases attacks on Gaza fishing boats.

(GAZA) - Two Americans are among those rescued after Israeli naval forces attacked unarmed Palestinian boats for the second consecutive day.

Israel's attacks on unarmed fishing crews who are hard pressed to earn a living, are on the rise.

`Reactor Reax` - Roundup uf Nuclear Weapons and Evegy Stories

This is a good roundup of information put together by Physicians for Social Responsibility and delivered to our viewers on a weekly basis.

(WASHINGTON D.C.) - There are big questions over the escalating cost of a nuclear facility under construction in the state of Virginia.

It isn't to say there aren't answers; the developers are simply going to pass the cost along to the taxpayer once the reactors are completed.

Iran is singled out because it defies Washington: Jeremy R. Hammond

In-depth interview addresses Iran's nuclear standoff, the renewed war threats of Israel and the U,S, against Iran, the prospect of Iran-West relations and also Israel's underground nuclear program.

(TEHRAN) - Jeremy R. Hammond is an American political analyst and journalist who is the editor of Foreign Policy Journal, a progressive online publication dedicated to providing critical analysis of the United States Foreign Policy.