Miriam Pemberton on runaway American military spending, unnecessary wars and the security risks posed by global warming / Fukushima update # 5
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Miriam Pemberton
Before hearing from this week’s guest, Dr. Caldicott gives a short Fukushima update recorded mid-week, laying out the “terribly serious” facts that seven nuclear reactors at Fukushima have melted down. Next, she brings on this week’s guest, Miriam Pemberton, a Research Fellow at the Institute for Policy Studies, writing and speaking on demilitarization issues for its Foreign Policy In Focus project. She has recently published a report, Military vs. Climate Security: Mapping the Shift from the Bush Years to the Obama Era. Some of the topics they discuss include runaway U.S. military spending in the face of massive unemployment and economic collapse, U.S. wars in the Middle East, global warming, and the Guantanamo Bay detention camp.