North Americans and Europeans discard as many as 40 million tons of electronic and hazardous waste annually. This waste is typically sent to China, India, or African countries, such as Ghana and Nigeria. The metals and chemicals contained in electronic products are often dangerous and poisonous. Stephen Leahy reports that schools, churches, and markets in [...]
The Washington Post Company is accused of using tactics including employment termination, criminal prosecution and civil suits in order to silence and intimidate future whistle blowing by employees. As a result of these tactics, Ben Wilcox, who was the former director of legal studies at Washington Post Company’s Kaplan University, was sentenced to prison on [...]
For 14 years, Chiquita Brands International has been linked to guerrilla groups and the right-wing paramilitary group AUC in Colombia. These groups would protect Chiquita Brand International and in turn Chiquita paid them. In March 2007, Chiquita pleaded guilty to paying over 1 million dollars and illegally distributing guns to these groups. Their punishment was [...]
A matrix of closely tied university-based strategic studies ventures, the so-called Grand Strategy Programs (GSP), have cropped up on a number of elite campuses around the country, where they function to serve the national security warfare state. In tandem with allied institutes and think tanks across the country, these programs, centered at Yale University, [...]
The disaster at Fukushima nuclear plant has released more radiation and caused greater ongoing health hazards than the Japanese government has acknowledged. Recent studies indicate the impact of Japan’s disaster on Canada. Those impacts are in fact worse than Canadian officials had anticipated, and they are cause for concern. A Health Canada monitoring station [...]
Common household cleaning products may be more dangerous than we realize. A study conducted by Women’s Voices for the Earth (WVE), an organization whose self-described mission is to “eliminate toxic chemicals that impact women’s health by changing consumer behaviors, corporate practices and government policies.” The study investigates the presence of dangerous chemicals in twenty [...]
On July 22, 2011, NATO bombed Libya’s main water source. The supply facility, operated by the Man Made River Corporation, provided water to approximately 70% of Libya’s population. With this plant damaged much of Libya’s population living in the desert does not have access to water. As if bombing the plant itself wasn’t enough, NATO [...]
Spanish society has been shaken by allegations of the trafficking of thousands of babies by nuns, priests and doctors, beginning under Franco’s rule and continuing into the 1990s. The practice of removing children from parents deemed “undesirable” and placing them with “approved” families, began in the 1930s under the dictator General Francisco Franco. Although government [...]
A moving “city’ of 10,000 cows and over 300 mainly young Jei warrior nomads who usually drive their herds across a 27,000 square mile area may be forced to settle. The reason behind this is because of harsh weather. More than 190 countries are preparing to meet in Durban, South Africa, to discuss UN climate [...]
The net worth of the members of Congress continues to rise regardless of the economic recession. An analysis of financial disclosure forms by Roll Call Magazine, using the minimum valuation of assets, showed that members of the House and Senate have a collective net worth of $2.04 billion, a $35.4 billion increase from the $1.65 [...]
