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Gulf Health Problems Blamed on Dispersed Oil
Dahr Jamail, Inter Press Service: "BP says it is no longer using toxic dispersants to break up the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. Gulf Coast residents claim otherwise, and say they have the sicknesses to prove... ...
Contractors Will Take The Place Of Troops In Iraq
As U.S. troops pull out of Iraq, the State Department will need to rely extensively on security contractors. http://www.n pr.org/templates/story/sto ry.php?storyId=128946086&f t=1&f=3 Rebranded... ...
BP accused of 'buying academic silence'
The head of the American Association of Professors has accused BP of trying to "buy" the best scientists and academics to help its defence against litigation after the Gulf of Mexico oil spill. http://www.bbc.co. uk/news/world-us-canada-10 731408 Deepwater... ...
Why Not Another World War?
http://www.lewrockwell.com /schiff/schiff102.html Wa r, Women, and the Taliban http://www.lewrock well.com/orig7/glass10.1.h tml -------- Don’t You Know There’s a War On? http://www.commondream s.org/view/2010/07/20-2 H ello,... ...
Scientists Say Gulf Oil Disaster Altering Food Web
Save, Baby, Save George Lakoff, Truthout: "The Death Gusher in the Gulf should tell us to end offshore drilling forever. The reason is simple: Systemic risk! Better regulations won't end what went wrong:... ...
American War Versus Real War
By Nick Turse If Americans care only sparingly for their paid, professional soldiers -- the ones A.O. Scott says deserve 90 minutes of our time -- they care even less about Afghan civilians. That's... ...
Treat Reckless Corporate Behavior like Drunk-Driving
http://www.commondreams.or g/view/2010/07/13-1 ----- --- “They just don’t know who they’re messing with” Mother Jones by Kate Sheppard 07/14/10 If you’ve been reading Mother Jones lately, you’ve heard... ...
The Militarization of the Gulf Oil Disaster
Anne McClintock, CounterPunch: "In the Gulf, the forever spill has become the forever war. A calamity of untold magnitude is unfolding and, alongside it, a strange militarization has emerged, as the language... ...
The Erosion of Individual Liberties: When Justice and Politics Become One
Lt. Col. Barry Wingard, Truthout: "In the "War on Terror," I am amazed how every time our enemy takes action, it sets into motion a scramble by our government to take away the individual rights of Americans.... ...
CIA hires Xe, formerly Blackwater, to guard facilities in Afghanistan, elsewhere
The revelation comes only a day after members of a federal commission investigating war-zone contractors blasted the State Department for granting Xe a new $120 million contract to guard U.S. consulates... ...