Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
The Invasion of America
January 8th, 2015Via: Aeon: Between 1776 and the present, the United States seized some 1.5 billion acres from North America’s native peoples, an area 25 times the size of the United Kingdom. Many Americans are only vaguely familiar with the story of how this happened. They perhaps recognise Wounded Knee and the Trail of Tears, but few […]
Prince Andrew Is Named in Underage Sex Lawsuit
January 3rd, 2015Via: Washington Post: Prince Andrew was named this week in an ongoing lawsuit brought by a group of women who claim they were trafficked to the world’s rich and powerful as part of an alleged underage “sex slave” ring run by American investment banker Jeffrey Epstein. The allegation, found in a court filing this week, […]
Monsanto’s Roundup and Autism
December 30th, 2014Via: The Complete Patient: Correlations are not causation, but when they plot out as clearly as Stephanie Seneff has plotted them out with regard to autism and glyphosate, the key ingredient in Monsanto’s Roundup weed killer, they are impossible to ignore. Seneff is a research scientist at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) who has […]
Hardship on Mexico’s Farms, a Bounty for U.S. Tables
December 21st, 2014This Los Angeles Times series looks and reads like distopian sci-fi. High tech green houses stretch across the land to the horizon. Workers exist in abject squalor. Or are they slaves? It depends on the the facility and the arbitrary whims of the crooks in charge. (View the image galleries, if you dare.) And when […]
Did CIA Torture Violate Nuremberg Ban on Human Experimentation?
December 18th, 2014Via: McClatchyDC: CIA health professionals may have committed war crimes by collecting and analyzing data on brutally interrogated detainees in potential violation of U.S. and international bans on research on human subjects without their consent, a human rights organization said Tuesday. Physicians for Human Rights called on President Barack Obama and Congress to establish a […]
Massacre: Taliban Storms Pakistan School, Killing 126, Mostly Children
December 16th, 2014Via: USA Today: Taliban gunmen stormed a school in Pakistan on Tuesday, killing at least 126 people, mostly children, that country’s government said. Hours after the attack, it was still not clear if hostages were being held or whether the militants were killed by Pakistan’s military. The attack began in the early morning, with the […]
Afghanistan War: One Trillion Dollars
December 14th, 2014Hope + Change we can believe in = Priceless Via: Financial Times: The Afghanistan war, the longest overseas conflict in American history, has cost the US taxpayer nearly $1tn and will require spending several hundred billion dollars more after it officially ends this month, according to FT calculations and independent researchers. Around 80 per cent […]
Persistent Associations Between Maternal Prenatal Exposure to Phthalates on Child IQ at Age 7 Years
December 12th, 2014Via: PLOS One: Child full-scale IQ was inversely associated with prenatal urinary metabolite concentrations of DnBP and DiBP: b = ?2.69 (95% confidence interval [CI] = ?4.33, ?1.05) and b = ?2.69 (95% CI = ?4.22, ?1.16) per log unit increase. Among children of mothers with the highest versus lowest quartile DnBP and DiBP metabolite […]
A Pacific Isle, Radioactive and Forgotten
December 9th, 2014Via: New York Times: THERE is no consistent air service to the coral atoll of Enewetak in the Marshall Islands, where the United States tested 67 nuclear weapons between 1946 and 1958. On my first trip to the capital, Majuro, in 2010, to study the danger posed there by the rising ocean, I managed to […]
Senate Report: CIA Misled Public on Torture
December 9th, 2014Update: Rectal Hydration Via: NBC: Along with the waterboarding, Mohammed was subjected to days of standing sleep deprivation, slapping and “stress positions,” the report says. And it says that several times he underwent an emergency medical procedure known as “rectal rehydration,” or proctolysis, which standard medical references describe as a way to quickly replace fluids […]
