Archive for the 'Atrocities' Category
Granddaughter of Mao Zedong Has Net Worth Over $800 Million
May 10th, 2013“All animals are equal, but some animals are more equal than others.” — Animal Farm by George Orwell Via: AFP: The appearance of a grand-daughter of Mao Zedong, founding father of Communist China, on a list of the country’s richest citizens prompted online accusations of hypocrisy Thursday. Kong Dongmei, now in her early 40s, and […]
Hanford Nuclear Waste “Cleanup” Disaster
May 10th, 2013Via: Scientific American: The most toxic and voluminous nuclear waste in the U.S.—208 million liters —sits in decaying underground tanks at the Hanford Site (a nuclear reservation) in southeastern Washington State. It accumulated there from the middle of World War II, when the Manhattan Project invented the first nuclear weapon, to 1987, when the last […]
‘And – you’re going to laugh – he said he was in the CIA.’
May 9th, 2013Update: Ariel Castro Found Hanged in His Ohio Prison Cell And that’s that. Via: USA Today: Ariel Castro, who was convicted last month on charges related to the capture and imprisonment of three women in Cleveland, has been found hanged in his prison cell, according to various sources. Castro, 52, was being held at the […]
Your Body Is a Corporate Test Tube
May 8th, 2013Via: Tom Dispatch: A hidden epidemic is poisoning America. The toxins are in the air we breathe and the water we drink, in the walls of our homes and the furniture within them. We can’t escape it in our cars. It’s in cities and suburbs. It afflicts rich and poor, young and old. And there’s […]
Home Owned by Saudi Government Near CIA Raided for Possible Human Trafficking
May 6th, 2013Via: CBS: Immigration officials have removed two domestic workers from a northern Virginia home owned by the government of Saudi Arabia as part of an investigation into a report of human trafficking. Agents went to the home in McLean on Tuesday night, Immigration and Customs Enforcement spokesman Brandon Montgomery said Thursday. Fairfax County police were […]
U.S. Judge Receives 28-Year Jail Term for His Role in Private Prison Kids-for-Cash Scheme
May 5th, 2013Via: Independent: An American judge known for his harsh and autocratic courtroom manner was jailed for 28 years for conspiring with private prisons to hand young offenders maximum sentences in return for kickbacks amounting to millions of dollars. Mark Ciavarella Jnr was ordered to pay $1.2m (£770,000) in restitution after he was found to be […]
Guantanamo Attorney Found Dead in Apparent Suicide
May 2nd, 2013The piece indicates that Hart had an eleven-year-old daughter. I couldn’t find any other original coverage of his death. All of the sources that I found link back to this Truthout piece. Via: Truthout: An attorney who represented prisoners detained at Guantanamo Bay was found dead last week in what sources said was a suicide. […]
Baby Taken from Parents Who Wanted 2nd Doctor’s Opinion
April 28th, 2013Madness. Via: KSDK: A Sacramento family was torn apart after a 5-month-old baby boy was taken from his parents following a visit to the doctor. Research Credit: alvinroasting
Registry System Being Set Up to Track Your Vaccination Status
April 28th, 2013Via: Vactruth: The Centers for Disease Control has been quietly rolling out a nationwide program called the Immunization Information Systems (IIS), registering your vaccine information into a database. This effort has been run in parallel with state vaccine registry implementations. What is the intention of such programs? My colleague Leslie Manookian, writer and director of […]
(Update: Fraud) ‘Unclaimed’ Documentary Film About a U.S. Army Veteran Left Behind in Vietnam for 44 Years
April 27th, 2013‘Missing’ U.S. Soldier Story Exposed as Fraud Via: Independent: Had it been true, it would have been one of the most gripping war stories of all time. But sadly it looks as if the man found living in the Vietnam jungle, who a new documentary claims is ‘long dead’ US army veteran Sgt John Hartley […]
