Thursday Dec 29, 2022
The Shortwave Report December 30, 2022
This week's show begins with several reports on the global climate in 2022, Taiwan and Japan step up war preparations, Amazon basin deforestation rates doubled under Bolsonaro, and a UK reporter who has been stationed in eastern Ukraine. This week's show features stories from Radio Deutsche-Welle, NHK JAPAN, Radio Havana Cuba, and George Galloway's Mother Of All Talk Shows.
From GERMANY- 2022 was a year where extreme weather events became quite common, right up to the devastating blizzard in North America- but can the deadly snowstorm be attributed to the climate change caused by human activity? The EU has imposed a windfall tax on oil companies for excess profits, and now Exxon is suing the EU to avoid the tax. Spain passed a 10 billion Euro economic aid package to help ordinary citizens struggling under inflation.
From JAPAN- Taiwan is stepping up its military affiliation with Japan, extending its mandatory conscription to a year, and accepted $10 billion in US military assistance over the next 5 years. China announced new military drills to express dissatisfaction with US interference in Taiwan. South Korea says drones from the North entered their airspace. 3 Russian military personnel died from Ukrainian drones on a Russian airbase 500 km from the border of eastern Ukraine. China will lessen some travel restrictions under a new Covid policy.
From CUBA- Deforestation in the Amazon basin nearly doubled under President Bolsonaro, mostly on indigenous lands. A London based Christian organization calculated the cost of disasters caused by human effects on the climate in 2022. Syrian government troops confronted a US military convoy that has recently protected 95 oil tankers stealing oil into Iraq.
From GEORGE GALLOWAY- Johnny Miller is a UK reporter who has been living in eastern Ukraine. He says that Ukraine forces are killing Ukrainian civilians in that region and it is not reported- he quotes Noam Chomsky and John Pilger who say that there is more propaganda in this war than any other modern conflict.
"War itself is, of course, a form of madness. It is hardly a civilized pursuit. It is amazing how we spend so much time inventing devices to kill each other and so little time working on how to achieve peace."
--Walter Cronkite
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