Berto Jongman: IMF – Debt Crisis Looms

$3 trillion corporate credit crunch looms as debtors face day of reckoning, says IMF A poisonous “triad” of global risks is pushing the world to the brink of a new financial crisis, says stark IMF report “Three percent of global output is at stake”.

Review: Crisis without End: The Medical and Ecological Consequences of the Fukushima Nuclear Catastrophe

Helen Caldicott et al. 4.0 out of 5 stars Vital Detailed Truth, Lacks Compelling Visualization, July 9, 2015 This book stems from a conference and is a very nicely presented double-spaced precis of the world-class contributions from the conference. Highlights: HELEN CALDICOTT QUOTE (3): The Fukushima disaster is not over and will not end for …

SchwartzReport: The Judicial Crisis Network (JCN) Secretive Right-Wing Corruption of the US Judiciary

I consider the corruption of the American judicial system to actually be worse that the corruption of the legislative branch of government. And the fact that a sitting Supreme Court Justice, Antonin Scalia, was present and contributed to this movement to skew the judiciary to reflect the views of the corporatist Theocratic Right, in my …

Chuck Spinney: Ukraine as Reverse Cuban Missile Crisis

The Dangers of Slow Boil in Ukraine: A Cuban Missile Crisis In Reverse Defense News, a defense industry trade publication, just released a report entitled, Ukraine Signs Defense Deal with UAE. It led with — “ABU DHABI — Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko announced a deal for unspecified military and technical cooperation with the UAE on …