A Palestinian plastic water tank factory was bombed by Israeli warplanes in the early hours of February 9th 2011. Owner of the factory Rabah Al-Hatto spoke as he looked at the rubble of his new factory, “I still cannot believe my eyes as I see the machines of our new factory, scattered to all corners.” [...]

A report done by the Campaign for Innocent Victims in Conflict (CIVIC) in October investigated nine of the 139 drone strikes carried out since the beginning of 2009, and found that a total of 30 civilians had been killed in those 9 strikes, including 14 women and children.  That gives an average of 3.3 civilians [...]

Oil quickly surged from the Deepwater Horizon Drilling Rig shortly after the unit burst into flames. The oil began gushing out of the deep-sea floor at an astonishing rate, slowly making its way to the surface. British Petroleum (BP) announced the company would use Corexit 9500 and Corexit 9527 to help break down massive oil [...]

The Environmental Working Group (EWG) had been working for several years to warn people of the effects of bisphenol A (BPA).  The EWG has also been working to get state and federal agencies to regulate BPA. Diane Feinstein, Democrat of California, was in the makings of a deal after months of negotiations. The deal agreed [...]

Unknown to most people, a new “wet-ware” technology now exists in which a sample of brain cells is put onto a 60 electrode circuit board where the semiconductor should have been. This circuit and the sample on top of it are then, either wirelessly or through the internet, connected to a technological device of various [...]

On average females use twenty personal products everyday while males use about six. Almost all of these products contain toxic chemicals that are known carcinogens, cause allergies, disrupt hormones, irritate skin, and have adverse affects on reproductive and neurological systems. The companies that make these products also regulate the law on what amount of toxicity [...]

The use of synthetic cannabis manufactured as K2 (also known as “spice”) to get “high” is legal under Federal Drug Laws despite the side effects from the use of this product. Some states have mandated laws prohibiting the sales of this product, while in most it remains unregulated and legal. K2 has only been tested [...]

Over the years the Japanese have been going on annual dolphin hunts. The Japanese have issued over 23,000 dolphin hunting permits each year. This is giving permission to hunters to kill thousands of dolphins in the six month period from September to March.  The way these dolphins are being killed is brutal and inhumane. The [...]

Information about your conversations with your family members and friends could be monitored by the government in the attempt to tackle internet crime and terrorism. Almost 25 million people in Britain are users of social networks and of the 25 million, 17 million are Facebook users. The proposal, Intercept Modernization Programme (IMP), plans to force [...]

Earlier this year the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) investigated Internet search engine giant Google for illegally collecting personal data such as passwords, emails, and other online activities from unsecured Wi-Fi networks in homes and businesses across the United States and around the rest of the world.  Google has claimed the data was accidentally picked up [...]