The Other Side of "North Korea"

North Korea , also known as DPRK, is a mostly unknown and mysterious country. There are several preconceptions and myths about it which can be hardly debunked since it is under immense international pressure over…

Thorium Reactors? No Evidence That Thorium Reactors Ready for Prime Time

[The 4th Media Editor’s note: The following article was sent to us as a challenge to the article (Breaking News: Safe Nuclear Does Exist, China LEADING the WAY with Thorium: http://www.4thmedia.org/2013/01/10/safe-nuclear-does-exist-and-china-is-leading-the-way-with-thorium/) we posted on Jan….

Breaking News: Safe Nuclear Does Exist, China LEADING the WAY with Thorium

A few weeks before the tsunami struck Fukushima’s uranium reactors and shattered public faith in nuclear power, China revealed that it was launching a rival technology to build a safer, cleaner, and ultimately cheaper network of reactors based on thorium. This passed unnoticed –except by a small of band of thorium enthusiasts – but it may mark the passage of strategic leadership in energy policy from an inert and status-quo West to a rising technological power willing to break the mould. If China’s dash for thorium power succeeds, it will vastly alter the global energy landscape and may avert a calamitous conflict over resources as Asia’s industrial revolutions clash head-on with the West’s entrenched consumption.

“Wiping Countries Off the Map”: Who’s Failing the “Failed States” Washington?

Washington is in the “business of destroying” a very long list of countries. “Across the world, a dangerous rumor has spread that could have catastrophic implications. According to legend, Iran’s President has threatened to destroy Israel, or, to quote the misquote, “Israel must be wiped off the map”. Contrary to popular belief, this statement was never made, …” (Arash Norouzi, Wiped off The Map: The Rumor of the Century January 2007) “The United States has attacked, directly or indirectly, some 44 countries throughout the world since August 1945, a number of them many times. The avowed objective of these military interventions has been to effect “regime change”. The cloaks of “human rights” and of “democracy” were invariably evoked to justify what were unilateral and illegal acts. (Professor Eric Waddell, The United States’ Global Military Crusade (1945- ), Global Research, February 2007