Como personajes de “El Gran Gatsby”, Gran Bretaña y Estados han vuelto arrogantemente sus espaldas y abandonado un país en ruinas. El polvo se va arrastrando por las largas carreteras que semejan dedos del desierto. Se te mete por los ojos, por la nariz y la garganta; se arremolina en los mercados y en [...]

Like characters from The Great Gatsby, Britain and the US have arrogantly turned their backs and left a country in ruins The dust in Iraq rolls down the long roads that are the desert’s fingers. It gets in your eyes and nose and throat; it swirls in markets and school playgrounds, consuming children kicking a ball; [...]

Making the world a more dangerous place The Australian parliament building reeks of floor polish. The wooden floors shine so virtuously they reflect the cartoon-like portraits of prime ministers, bewigged judges and viceroys. Along the gleaming white, hushed corridors, the walls are hung with Aboriginal art: one painting after another as in a monolithic gallery, divorced [...]

Fuente: IPS por Julio Godoy PARÍS, 12 abr (IPS) – Investigaciones de la organización ambientalista Greenpeace contradicen las declaraciones públicas de la compañía estatal francesa Areva de que las áreas pobladas cerca de minas de uranio en Níger no están contaminadas. Alta radiactivdad persiste en localidades y áreas rurales vecinas a las minas, y afectaría a unas 80.000 [...]

Fuente: Rebelión por Edmundo Fayanas Escuer 26 de enero, 2010 Después de siete años del comienzo del segundo ataque a Iraq por parte de Estados Unidos y de su ocupación, podemos hacer ya un balance de este periodo de guerra y de enfrentamientos continuos. Varias han sido las causas para que Estados Unidos invadiera Iraq. En primer lugar el [...]

versión en español abajo Source: New America Media by Jalal Ghazi January 6, 2010 Forget about oil, occupation, terrorism or even Al Qaeda. The real hazard for Iraqis these days is cancer. Cancer is spreading like wildfire in Iraq. Thousands of infants are being born with deformities. Doctors say they are struggling to cope with the rise of cancer [...]

by Kari Lydersen October 24, 2009 ACOMA, NEW MEXICO-On the Navajo Nation, almost everyone you talk to either worked in uranium mines themselves or had fathers or husbands who did. Almost everyone also has multiple stories of loved ones dying young from cancer, kidney disease and other ailments attributed to uranium poisoning. The effects aren’t limited to uranium [...]

by Moushumi Basu October 7, 2009 “I have had three miscarriages and lost five children within a week of their births,” says Hira Hansda, a miner’s wife. “Even after 20 years of marriage we have no children today.” Now in her late forties, she sits outside her mud hut in Jadugoda Township, site of one of the [...]

Observer investigation uncovers link between dramatic rise in birth defects in Punjab and pollution from coal-fired power stations by Gethin Chamberlain August 30, 2009 Their heads are too large or too small, their limbs too short or too bent. For some, their brains never grew, speech never came and their lives are likely to be cut short: these [...]

por Julio Godoy PARÍS, ago (IPS) – La reforma constitucional en Níger para que el presidente Mamadou Tandja pudiera permanecer en el poder tuvo en realidad el objetivo de preservar los cientos de millones de dólares que llegan a ese país del oeste africano a través de oscuras inversiones extranjeras, especialmente francesas, para las minas de [...]