Rigoberta Menchú TUM "We have learned that change cannot come through war..."
Hillary CLINTON "I am particularly horrified by the use of propaganda..."
Mary M. McCarthy – New York Times – Thursday, 03 January 2013 (originally published 01 Jan) “THEY started to drag us away, one by one. … I hid under the table, but was soon found. … The Japanese officer … took his sword out of its scabbard and pointed it at me, threatening me with [...]
Kyung Lah – CNN – Friday, 13 January 2012 (originally published 12 Jan) Tokyo (CNN) – Some new mothers in Japan may soon be adding radiation testing of their breast milk to their list of health checkups. Government officials say they are considering widespread testing of breast milk samples of new mothers in Fukushima Prefecture, home [...]
News24 – Friday, 29 April, 2011 (originally published 28 April) Tokyo – A female employee at the damaged Fukushima nuclear power plant in north-eastern Japan is reported to have been overexposed to radiation while authorities have detected high levels of radiation in fish and spinach produced near the plant, a news report said on Thursday. [...]
A bit of good news, even as the death toll from Japan’s double-whammy disaster reaches more than 8,000 Gavin Blair – Global Post – Monday, 21 March, 2011 (originally published 20 March) MIYAGI, Japan – Even as the confirmed death toll rose to 8,133 on Sunday, there was a rare piece of good news as [...]
David Leonhardt - The New York Times – Monday, 14 March, 2011 Douglas Almond, a Columbia University economist who has studied the effects of the Chernobyl disaster, is concerned that the Japanese government may not be doing enough to warn pregnant women to leave any areas at risk of radiation exposure. Those areas can be [...]
