Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
When the Rivers Run Black
March 20th, 2014Via: Medium: The most toxic byproduct of coal-fired power isn’t carbon dioxide. It’s the residue that’s left over. When coal is burned in a plant, just like in a home, it produces two kinds of ash: fly ash, which rises, and bottom ash, which sinks to the floor of the furnace. Together, they comprise coal […]
Forests Around Chernobyl Aren’t Decaying Properly
March 15th, 2014Via: Smithsonian: Nearly 30 years have passed since the Chernobyl plant exploded and caused an unprecedented nuclear disaster. The effects of that catastrophe, however, are still felt today. Although no people live in the extensive exclusion zones around the epicenter, animals and plants still show signs of radiation poisoning. Birds around Chernobyl have significantly smaller […]
Britain: One of Prime Minister’s Closest Aides Arrested, Allegations Related to Child Porn
March 12th, 2014Via: Telegraph: One of David Cameron’s closest aides has been arrested on suspicion of offences relating to child pornography. Patrick Rock, who was one of the government’s advisors on policy for online pornography filters, was arrested last month after police examined computers in No 10 Downing Street. Mr Rock resigned as a policy advisor to […]
Man Spends 26 Years on Death Row for Murder He Didn’t Commit
March 12th, 2014Via: CNN: There are many ways to measure 30 years, but for Glenn Ford, the yardstick is simple. “My sons — when I left — was babies. Now they grown men with babies,” he said, speaking as a free man for the first time in nearly three decades. Ford, Louisiana’s longest-serving death row prisoner, walked […]
Chemotherapy for People with End Stage Cancer
March 9th, 2014Is this the most egregious scam in the world? Via: CBS: More than half of end-stage cancer patients receive chemotherapy during the last few months of their life, and those who received such treatment were more likely to die in a hospital intensive care unit, hooked to a ventilator, rather than at home as they […]
The E-Waste Disaster in Ghana
March 7th, 2014Via: Kevin McElvaney:
Obama Is Complicit in Suppressing the Truth About Torture
March 5th, 2014Via: The Atlantic: President Obama is complicit in suppressing the truth about CIA torture of prisoners. That’s clear from the fact that the Senate intelligence committee’s $40 million, 6,000-page torture report is still being suppressed 15 months after being adopted.
Dismantling Fukushima Will Require Robotic Technology That Has Not Been Invented Yet
March 2nd, 2014Via: IEEE: “At Fukushima you have wrecked infrastructure, three melted cores, and you have some core on the floor, ex-vessel,” Barrett says. Nothing like Fukushima, he declares, has ever happened before.
China Vows ‘Iron Fist’ Response to Deadly Train Station Attack
March 2nd, 2014Via: Christian Science Monitor: For more than a year, the Chinese media have published regular reports of deadly violent incidents in the predominantly Muslim province of Xinjiang, in China’s far west. More than 100 people died last year in clashes between the police and ethnic Uighurs identified by the government as terrorists seeking independence from […]
Over The Last Three Years, Israeli Forces Have Killed Dozens of Palestinian Civilians in the West Bank with “Near Total Impunity”
February 27th, 2014I don’t know why last three years should stand out as a distinct period from the last several decades of Israeli atrocities, but so it goes… Via: Amnesty International: Israeli forces have displayed a callous disregard for human life by killing dozens of Palestinian civilians, including children, in the occupied West Bank over the past […]
