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“…during the period from 2002-2007 in France the doubling of childhood leukemia incidence: the increase is up to 2.2 among children under age five.

“The researchers note that they found no mechanistic proof of cause and effect, but could find no other environmental factor that could produce the excess cancers.

“Without getting overly technical, the case-control study included the 2,753 cases of acute leukemia diagnosed in mainland France over 2002-2007, and 30,000 contemporaneous population ‘controls.’ The children’s last addresses were geo-coded and located around France’s 19 nuclear power stations, which operate 54 separate reactors. The study used distance to the reactors and a dose-based geographic zoning (DBGZ), based on the estimated dose to bone marrow related to the reactors’ gaseous discharges….”

Author: John LaForge, on the staff of Nukewatch in Wisconsin
Published in: HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/); Aletho News (at https://alethonews.wordpress.com/); ScrollPost.com (at http://scrollpost.com/)
Date: January 18, 19 and 20, 2012

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“The executive branch has acquired greater authoritarian and unaccountable power under this law which disaffirms justice as a fundamental human right. It brings the illegal practice of extraordinary rendition home. Tom Parker of Amnesty International USA argues that the NDAA “provides a framework for ‘normalizing’ indefinite detention and making Guantanamo a permanent feature of American life.” What democracy and civil liberties we did enjoy in this country before the NDAA of 2012 became law have been severely weakened, and our nation’s moral and legal credibility in the world, which has been gradually declining since the so-called “war on terror” was declared by President Bush, has been diminished further….”

Author: Brian J. Trautman, military veteran and instructor of peace and world order studies at Berkshire Community College in Pittsfield, Massachusetts
Published in: CounterPunch.org (at http://www.counterpunch.org/); PeaceWorker.org (at http://peaceworker.org/); NDAA Blog (at http://kynyts.typepad.com/ndaa/); WorldNews.com (at http://article.wn.com/); HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/);
Date: January 18, 2012

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“Overall, as public opinion studies show, Americans want a smaller—rather than a larger—global footprint for their nation. According to a 2010 poll by the Chicago Council on Global Affairs, only 8 percent favored the United States playing the role of the preeminent world leader, while 71 percent favored a cooperative approach….”

Author: Lawrence S. Wittner, Emeritus Professor of History at the State University of New York/Albany
Published in: Berthoud Recorder (at http://www.berthoudrecorder.com/); TownNews.com; HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/); ConsortiumNews.com (at http://consortiumnews.com/); SunSentinel.com (at http://www.sun-sentinel.com/); Truthout.org (at http://www.truth-out.org/); Alternet.org (at http://www.alternet.org/story/); DemocraticUnderground.com (at http://metamorphosis.democraticunderground.com/); ThePeoplesVoice.org (at http://www.thepeoplesvoice.org/); WeMustChange.org (at http://wemustchange.org/); ThePeoplesForum (at http://www.the-peoples-forum.com/); PeaceandJusticePost (at http://sudhan.wordpress.com/); LiketheDew.com out of Atlanta, Georgia (at http://likethedew.com/); NewClearVision out of Prescott, Arizona (at http://www.newclearvision.com/)
Date: January 17, 18, 22 and 25, 2012

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“In early January the Obama Administration released the Pentagon’s new Guidance, Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense. It is clearly designed less to cut U.S. military spending than to reorder Pentagon priorities to ensure full spectrum dominance (dominating any nation, anywhere, at any time, at any level of force) for the first decades of the 21st century. As President Obama himself said, after the near-doubling of military spending during the Bush era, the Guidance will slow the growth of military spending, ‘but…it will still grow:, in fact by 4% in the coming year.’…”

Author: Joseph Gerson, Disarmament Coordinator of the American Friends Service Committee and Director of the AFSC’s Peace and Economic Security Program in New England
Published in: HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/); CounterPunch.org (at http://www.counterpunch.org/); Znet (at http://www.zcommunications.org/); TalkGwinnett.com
Date: January 14 and 16, 2012

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“Just saying her name sounds like a joke: Baroness Bertha Felicitas Sophie Freifrau von Suttner, Gräfin, née Countess Kinsky von Wchinitz und Tettau. And when she began talking about ending war in mid-nineteenth century Austria it wasn’t her name that was treated as a joke. Yet by the turn of the century, her idea seemed to be one whose time had come.

“Bertha von Suttner’s novel ‘Ground Arms,’ or ‘Lay Down Your Arms,’ was widely described as the ‘Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ of war abolition. It was doing and would accomplish for war what Harriet Beecher Stowe’s book had for slavery. I can’t encourage you strongly enough to take a quick break from the inanities of presidential debates and football announcers and buy the book, borrow the book, or read it free online….”

Author: David Swanson, author of “When the World Outlawed War,” “War Is A Lie” and “Daybreak: Undoing the Imperial Presidency and Forming a More Perfect Union”
Published in: Aid Resources (at http://aidresources.org/);
Date: January 12, 2012

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“Humans are born, grow to adulthood, work or perhaps have a family, grub for money or prestige, exercise power over others or have it exercised upon us—and die—dog-eat-dog most of the way. Spiritual leaders past and present call us toward a different story, another set of values, where we are meant to mature into a compassionate identification with the whole earth and all people—a world that works for everyone, and feeds all children.

“Too many of us still refuse to see the practical relevance of such values either to international or personal politics. We call them naïve, rationalizing our casual saber-rattling. We assume thousands of nuclear warheads in the control of a democratically elected leader are qualitatively different from the same weapons in the hands of a dictator—denying the reality that fallout from such weapons, no matter whose, would pollute the rain that falls on the just and unjust, the warriors and the babies, alike….”

Author: Winslow Myers, author of “Living Beyond War: A Citizen’s Guide,” and on the Board of Beyond War
Published in: Consortium News (at http://consortiumnews.com/); Truthout.org (at http://www.truth-out.org/); HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/); CommonDreams.org (at http://www.commondreams.org/); Topix.com (at http://www.topix.com/); LehighAcresGazette (at http://www.lehighacresgazette.com/); AidNews.org (at http://aidnews.org/)
Date: January 5, 6 and 7, 2012

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“January 12, 2012, is the 10th anniversary of the day when terrorism suspects were subjected to indefinite incarceration in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, generally in the absence of any charges or trial….

“A boston.com article about President Obama on January 22, 2009, said that ‘He signed executive orders to shut down the Guantanamo Bay terrorist detention center within a year and to ban harsh interrogations…’ and that his incoming director of national intelligence, Retired Admiral Dennis Blair, told Congress that the detention center is ‘a damaging symbol to the world [and] a rallying cry for terrorist recruitment and harmful to our national security.’

“Good ideas, but the detention center still has more than 100 prisoners. Time for a change? This coming Wednesday, January 11, will be a National Day of Action to Close Guantanamo ; there will be nonviolent actions across the country, with a major demonstration planned in Washington, DC. Please support these efforts in mind and heart if not in action.”

Author: Kathie Malley-Morrison, professor of of psychology at Boston University
Published in: HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/). Berthoudrecorder.com (at http://www.berthoudrecorder.com/)
Date: January 6, 2012

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“Standing in front of 40 religious and academic leaders in Najaf, Iraq this summer, I wondered how they would react to the presentation I was about to give. I was an unarmed, Christian American spending five weeks in Iraq with the Muslim Peacemaker Teams (MPT). The topic of my presentation was the relationship between Iraqis and Americans and the possibility of “reconciliation.”

“I lived for five weeks in June and July of 2011 at the home of my friend and colleague, Sami Rasouli, in Najaf, a city about two hours south of Baghdad. My country still occupied theirs, but the people I met were welcoming and warm. Most told me they were eager, if somewhat nervous, for the end of the American occupation, but also eager to build stronger relationships—professional and cultural—with the American people….”

Author: Luke Wilcox, Development and Communications Director of the Iraqi and American Reconciliation Project in Minneapolis, Minnesota
Published in: HuntingtonNews.net (at http://www.huntingtonnews.net/); CounterPunch.org (at http://www.counterpunch.org/); WorldNews.com (at http://article.wn.com/)
Date: January 5, 2012

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“We are so radically in need of a rapid evolution in our methods of conflict management. Hello? Earth to Obama! Earth to the military! Come in! Humanity here–can we talk? Nonviolence can do all the good things you say you want done without any of the bad things that only violence can trigger. Can we make 2012 the Year of the US Nonviolence Conversion? It is overdue….”

Author: Tom H. Hastings, Director of PeaceVoice out of Portland, Oregon
Published in: CounterPunch.org (at http://www.counterpunch.org/); The Daily Star out of Hammond, Louisiana; Truthout.org (at http://www.truth-out.org/)
Date: December 26 and 29, 2011 and January 15, 2012

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“This suggestion has a vexing corollary since so-called mammography is just a lower dose of X-radiation given directly to breast tissue. Yet the new IOM study’s authors say in a footnote, ‘While recognizing the risks of ionizing radiation exposure, particularly for certain higher-dose methods (such as CT scans), it is not the committee’s intent to dissuade women from routine mammography screening.’ Yet the advisability of mammography has been under attack ever since the British medical journal The Lancet in Oct. 2006 reported on a study by Dr. Peter Gotzsche that found the produced no health benefits. The late Dr. John Gofman argued for his entire career that X-rays caused more breast cancer then they detect, a position defended at length by Dr. Samuel Epstein in his book ‘The Politics of Cancer’…”

Author: John LaForge, on staff of Nukewatch
Published in: Lehigh Acres Gazette out of Lehigh Acres, Florida (at http://www.lehighacresgazette.com/); Joplin Independent out of Missouri (at http://www.joplinindependent.com/); CounterPunch.org (at http://www.counterpunch.org/); CancersAnswerSite (at http://cancersanswers.info/)
Date: December 16, 19, 26 and 31, 2011

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