OLIGARCH WARS
NUKES, UKRAINE, DISINFO, AND THE 1%
(Photo credit: Wikimedia Commons) - Article by Scott Albright
Two of this year’s scariest events are probably the to lead to the needless and immediate loss of innocent and
Fukushima nuclear plant meltdown and the ongoing conflict unwitting lives by other oblivious pawns in this game of
in Ukraine. Both deal with the horrors associated with loss of billionaires and brutes then anywhere else in the world,
life, disinformation, and the threat of nuclear destruction which is why I am going to outline some of the issues
and/or annihilation of humans and their environment. involved and propose what I believe to be a broad and far
Unfortunately very few people pay any attention to these reaching solution that could work for both the short and the
events nor put in the energy needed to find the solutions and long terms.
repair the damage that’s already been done. In Ukraine a full
First lets get the nuclear stuff out of the way. There’s
scale east-west military confrontation may have
no doubt in my mind that further escalations of
already been avoided. As for Fukushima, well,
the fighting in Ukraine could lead to a nuclear
things are already out of control. Although
T h e c o n fl i c t i n
Ukraine
is
much
more
catastrophe. Remember Chernobyl is in
some things can still be done to mitigate the
likely to lead to the needless
Ukraine. Nuclear materials and nuclear
problems, it will probably take decades
and immediate loss of
innocent
and
unwitting
lives
by
expertise is quite available in the eastern
before anything is even close to normal
other oblivious pawns in this
European
former Soviet state. For example,
again, and right now nobody has the
game of billionaires and
brutes
then
anywhere
not
too
long
ago, in March 2007, the U.S.
technology or capacity to fully resolve the
else in the world.
announced
it
would
commit $14 million to
environmental and health problems associated
provide
the
South
Ukraine
Nuclear Power Plant
with the meltdown. And that’s just one reason why
with
42
nuclear
fuel
assemblies
manufactured by the
I’ve decided to only focus on the Ukraine issue here,
former
CBS
Corporation
parent
company
Westinghouse
but that’s not to say the two events aren’t interrelated. In fact
Electric,
a
group
company
of
the
Toshiba
Corporation.2
there are quite a few similarities between these events,
particularly when it comes to the disinformation and lies These are the same guys responsible for providing
being circulated throughout the media regarding the two components to the Fukushima Daichi nuclear reactors that
calamities.1 The intent of this article is to give readers an went into total meltdown following the massive 2011
idea of the types of problems the oligarchs and earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan. Of course you’d
authoritarians are orchestrating or participating in without probably never think there was a problem if you watch CBS
the consent of the people they rule or govern. Ukraine is but news though. Ha! Ha!
But seriously, the problem goes far beyond the
just one place in the world where these types of
confrontations and conflicts are created, but currently it nuclear energy waste and release of radioactive materials
[22into
] the environment. When the Soviet Union broke apart in
seems as though the conflict in Ukraine is much more likely