Activists say Swedish ship due to join attempt to break Israel’s blockade of Gaza has been damaged in Greek port. A Swedish ship due to join an upcoming Gaza-bound aid flotilla has been sabotaged in the Greek port of Piraeus, organisers say. In a statement, they said “hostile divers had destroyed the propeller house and [...]
Monthly Archives: June 2011
Fukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think
Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera. Japan’s 9.0 earthquake on March 11 caused a massive tsunami that crippled the cooling systems [...]
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No Relief for Iraqi Doctors
As thousands of doctors leave Iraq, those who remain to heal the sick say they need more security and less corruption. “The hospital is crowded, the medical staff are overloaded, and we are deficient of medical staff because doctors continue to leave Iraq,” Dr Yehiyah Karim, a general surgeon at Baghdad Medical City, told Al [...]