Update on the situation in Japan

There have been some excellent articles in the last 24 hours regarding the unfolding situation in Japan. These are perspectives that we are hardly getting from our own media.

Firstly, an item from al-Jazeera which shows the devastation to Japan's rice paddies caused by the tsunami including toxic waste.

Dahr Jamail who is an American independent journalist (who did some wonderful coverage of the war in Iraq) has written this article "No Safe Levels" of Radiation in Japan

Finally Chris Martenson who wrote the Crash Course appeared in a interview on a US financial programme  called the Daily Ticker, where he talks about the effects of the disaster in Japan on the Japanese, but also the US and world economy.