Birth defects from uranium mining, Jadugoda, India

From Kasama, which received this article from A World To Win News Service.

31 August 2009. A World to Win News Service. In mid-July Secretary of State Hillary Clinton went to India with a deadly agenda. India feared a change in its relations with the U.S. under the new Obama government. Further, with Clinton’s visit coming only days after the G-8 meeting of the developed countries of the world including the U.S. had reaffirmed a commitment to not pass along enrichment and nuclear reprocessing technology to non-signatories of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty, India, a non-signatory of this treaty, may have thought it had cause for concern.

But Clinton unabashedly informed the world, “We have just completed a civil nuclear deal. If it is done through proper channels and safeguarded, then it is appropriate. ” (india-server. com/news/ hillary). India remained a “global partner”, she said, and the two countries would proceed with agreements initiated by Bush on military issues (the sale of billions of dollars worth of U.S. airplanes and military technology) and civilian nuclear deals.

She continued, “I’m so pleased that Prime Minister Singh told me that sites for two nuclear parks for U.S. companies have been approved by the government. These parks will advance the aims of the U.S.-India civil nuclear agreement, facilitate billions of dollars in U.S. reactor exports, and create jobs in both counties, as well as generate much-needed energy for the Indian people.” The two sites are of “significant acreage” and have forested buffer zones to allow for future expansion. (Frontline, 1 August 2009, tni.org) They are in Andhra Pradesh, where Maoists lead the masses in a people’s war that is often in sharp conflict with the Indian government’s encroachment on tribal lands, and in Gujarat. In both states anti-government feeling runs high among the poor and downtrodden. Read the rest of this entry »