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Alice Slater ‘Sitting ducks: Dangerous & dumb to keep building nuclear power plants’

Alice Slater’s interview with rt.com just before the Nuclear Security Summit in Washington, USA.  The transcript is below. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7C_mKtd5x50&feature=youtu.be “One doesn’t need nukes to attack a nuclear power plant,” says Alice Slater from the Nuclear Age Peace Foundation. “A simple…

Obama’s nuclear summit – it wasn’t…

Obama gathered ‘world leaders’ in Washington this past week to once again attempt to justify his ‘Nobel Peace Prize’.  He failed.  (In the final group photo Kiev’s Petro Poroshenko is standing behind Obama.  He grabbed $335 million in US military…

Corporate Media gatekeepers protect western 1% from Panama leak

By Craig Murray Whoever leaked the Mossack Fonseca papers appears motivated by a genuine desire to expose the system that enables the ultra wealthy to hide their massive stashes, often corruptly obtained and all involved in tax avoidance. These Panamanian…

Bernie Sanders on religion

For many people their religious viewpoint is very personal and for many people it is not easy to answer questions such as this put to Bernie Sanders, but being a public speaker he gives as complete and relaxed an answer…

Brooke Cerda Guzman on Face 2 Face

On this show we discussed with Brooke Cerda Guzman @TRANSLATINAS_NY. Brooke is TransWomen’s Civil Rights Activist who tell us her story and her experiences on being an undocumented, immigrant and transgender in New York City. This show is mainly about…

TiSA and the Banks

Just when you thought you were beginning to get a handle on TTIP, TPP, CETA and other ‘free’ trade agreements coming our way, the newest and perhaps most secretive of the bunch is raising its ugly head. ‘The agreement covers…

A new Sunni-Salafist-Zionist coalition changing the Middle East?

What would you make of news that Israel, Saudi-Arabia and others are talking about nuclear weapons? That they talk about how to fight Iran that has just signed an internationally binding agreement about not acquiring nuclear weapons? How strong is…

Reflections after Brussels

    The general post-Brussels mainstream media discourse has shown the same profile as virtually all others since September 11, 2001: • Emphasis on who did it, the circumstances where it happened and how the crime was carried out; •…

It’s not anti-Dilma, or anti-Lula, it’s anti the progress of the Brazilian people

By Ilka Oliva Corado. The word “people” frightens the business elite, the bourgeoisie and the Latin American middle class, they become uneasy when they hear about the working class, let alone when the impassioned cry of rebellious peasants resounds like…

Glenn Greenwald: Is it a coup?

What is happening in Brazil is much worse than Donald Trump   Brazil is facing its worst political crisis in over two decades as opponents of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff attempt to impeach her on corruption charges. But Rousseff is…

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