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Veterans' group: CIA blocking lawsuit over experiments on troops
Daniel Tencer: "An advocacy group working on behalf of Vietnam veterans has asked a federal judge in California to sanction the CIA, saying the spy agency has been blocking efforts to uncover its role in alleged experiments on US soldiers from the 1950s to 1970s. ("at least 250, but as many as 400 chemical and biological agents")
Aug 30, 2010, 5:29pm
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Murdered Migrants near the Border: Incovenient Truth for the US
Brenda Norrell: "The 72 people murdered at a ranch in Tamaulipas State, about 100 miles south of Brownsville, Texas, are believed to be migrants...The US news media fails to point out that the most vicious killers in Mexico, the Zetas running the drug trafficking, were trained by the United States as Special Forces at the US School of the Americas...
Aug 27, 2010, 11:53am
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India blocks Vedanta Mine on Dongria-Kondh Tribe's Sacred Hill
Maseeh Rahman in New Delhi: "After years of controversy and confusion, Vedanta's project to mine bauxite on a forested hill considered sacred by an ancient tribe has been stopped by the Indian government...
Vedanta was accused of rushing ahead with the mining project without obtaining the consent of the tribal groups
Aug 25, 2010, 10:40am
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Holding the line against Honeywell
"On June 28, 225 Metropolis (Southern Illinois) uranium workers--represented by United Steelworkers (USW) Local 7-669--were locked out by management in the middle of contract negotiations, despite the fact the union offered to keep working under the old contract...The main point of contention is Honeywell's demand that employees accept big increases in their health-care costs - HEALTH CARE is central because of the highly dangerous nature of the work.
Aug 17, 2010, 3:25pm
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Haiti's Hip-Hop President - Wyclef Jean?
Alexander Billet: "The problem with Wyclef isn't his lack of a plan; it's whether that plan will actually be in the interests of the Haitian people...Charlie Hinton (Haiti Action Committee) - no election held in Haiti's current condition will be fair. Aristide remains in exile in South Africa, and his party, Fanmi Lavalas, the most popular in all of Haiti, is legally prohibited for running candidates.
Aug 17, 2010, 12:33pm
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Militarizing the Border and Keeping Afghan Secrets
Brenda Norrell: "The Wikileaks secret that the US doesn't want leaked: The US pays the Taliban"...Obama signed the $600 million border security bill into law, so now there will be more US military on the border to run drugs and terrorize border residents, including Indigenous Peoples and other people of color.
Aug 14, 2010, 1:06pm
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Nagasaki Journey
On August 10, 1945 , the day after the bombing of Nagasaki, Yosuke Yamahata began to photograph the devastation. His companions on the journey were a painter, Eiji Yamada, and a writer, Jun Higashi. (Reprinted from previous years.)
Aug 9, 2010, 11:01am
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Hiroshima, August 6, 1945
"A bright light filled the plane," wrote Col. Paul Tibbets, the pilot of the Enola Gay, the B-29 that dropped the first atomic bomb. "We turned back to look at Hiroshima. The city was hidden by that awful cloud...boiling up, mushrooming." (Previously Published)
Aug 6, 2010, 4:21pm
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Wikileaks: Canada's Unauthorized Wiretaps of Mohawks
Brenda Norrell: "While the Pentagon ignores the US murderers of civilians and reporters, Wikileaks continues to publish the truth, including unauthorized wiretaps. Currently on Wikileaks are documents exposing the unauthorized wiretaps of at least 12 Mohawks.
Aug 6, 2010, 3:31pm
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Did Churchill and Eisenhower cover up UFO encounter?
The Independent, UK: "Such was the sensitivity of an alleged UFO sighting by an RAF bomber crew returning to England from a mission over Germany that Churchill ordered it to be covered up with the words: "This event should be immediately classified since it would create mass panic amongst the general population and destroy one's belief in the Church."
Aug 5, 2010, 12:16pm
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Fourteen Examples of Systemic Racism in the US Criminal Justice System
Bill Quigley: "The biggest crime in the U.S. criminal justice system is that it is a race-based institution where African-Americans are directly targeted and punished in a much more aggressive way than white people...Is the US criminal justice system operated to marginalize and control millions of African Americans?
Jul 27, 2010, 2:28pm
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Indian military to weaponize hot chilies
(NaturalNews) The Indian military has announced a plan to convert the world's hottest chili pepper into a weapon...The weapons will be made from the bhut jolokia, also known as the "ghost chili" and acknowledged by Guinness World Records as the most potent chili in the world. The potency of the bhut jolokia measures more than one million Scoville units
Jul 26, 2010, 2:19pm
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Toxic legacy of US assault on Fallujah 'worse than Hiroshima'
Patrick Cockburn: "Dramatic increases in infant mortality, cancer and leukaemia in the Iraqi city of Fallujah, which was bombarded by US Marines in 2004, exceed those reported by survivors of the atomic bombs that were dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki in 1945...the extent of genetic damage suffered by inhabitants suggests the use of uranium in some form.
Jul 24, 2010, 10:57am
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Iroquois Passport Issue Raises Sovereignty Questions
“The rights of Native nations to govern themselves independently has long been recognized by federal treaties, but the extent of that recognition beyond U.S borders is under challenge in a post-Sept. 11 world...U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand is urging Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to work with American Indian governments and the Canadian and United Kingdom governments to develop acceptable travel documents for tribal citizens...
Jul 21, 2010, 3:27pm
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England says "no" to Iroquois Nationals on travel waiver
"We have been informed that the United Kingdom will not permit the Iroquois Nationals Lacrosse Team to travel to England for the 2010 Federation of International Lacrosse (FIL) World Championships, already under way in Manchester...there simply was no way we could accede to the recommendation that we accept either American or Canadian passports to travel.
Jul 18, 2010, 11:37am
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