MEMO – February 16, 2016 The Environmental Quality Authority yesterday seized an Israeli truck full of chemical remains heading to illegally unload in occupied Palestinian territories, Quds Press reported. The truck, which left the Israeli settlement of Karnei Shomron, was seized between the Palestinian villages of Kafr Thulth and Azzun near the West Bank city […]
Sputnik – 11.02.2016 Documents obtained by Muckrock under the Freedom of Information Act have revealed that chemical leaks at the US Kadena Air Base in Okinawa may be the culprit behind the contamination of local drinking water. Not content with poisoning just their own citizens with contaminated water, it seems that an array of accidents […]
By Joseph Mangano and Janette D. Sherman | CounterPunch | February 5, 2016 Is it possible for an epidemic to be invisible? Since 1991 the annual number of newly documented cases of thyroid cancer in the United States has skyrocketed from 12,400 to 62,450. It’s now the seventh most common type of cancer. Relatively little attention […]
[audio mp3="http://www.corbettreport.com/mp3/2016-02-01%20Elaine%20Dewar.mp3"][/audio]In the early 1990s Canadian author, researcher and journalist Elaine Dewar had the chance to meet and interview Maurice Strong for her book, Cloak of Green: The Links between Key Environmental Groups, Government and Big Business. Today she joins The Corbett Report to discuss Strong's career and her discovery of the business and political interests behind the NGOs shaping the environmental movement.
By Karl Grossman | CounterPunch | February 1, 2016 The class action lawsuit—begun 20 years old—that charges Brookhaven National Laboratory (BNL) with contaminating neighborhoods adjacent to it will be moving ahead again in New York State Supreme Court this month. Court action is scheduled for the last week in February. Since it was first brought […]
By John Laforge | CounterPunch | January 29, 2016 In his book Atomic Accidents (Pegasus, 2014), James Mahaffey reports that the US has lost, destroyed or damaged nuclear weapons 65 times between 1945 and 1989. Jan. 24 was the anniversary of a B-52 crash in N. Carolina where two 6,500-lb hydrogen bombs fell from the […]
RT | January 26, 2016 The City of Seattle is suing Monsanto over allegations that the agrochemical giant polluted the Lower Duwamish River and city drainage pipes, becoming the sixth city to file a lawsuit against the company. The complaint was filed in federal court on Monday by two firms, Baron & Budd and Gomez […]
By Joyce Nelson | CounterPunch | January 15, 2016 Opposition to the proposed nuclear waste facility by Lake Huron continues to grow. By the end of 2015, at least 182 communities (representing more than 22 million people) on both sides of the U.S.-Canada border have adopted resolutions opposing the plan by Ontario Power Generation to […]
