Tall Bloke’s Talk Shop | August 6, 2017 Goldman Sachs, the merchant bank, calls cobalt ‘the new gasoline’ but there are no signs of new wealth in the DRC, where the children haul the rocks brought up from tunnels dug by hand. Adult miners dig up to 600ft below the surface using basic tools, without […]
By Tortilla con Sal | teleSUR | August 4, 2017 Global Witness is a well-established environmental and human rights non-governmental organization based in Britain. As with many other similar organizations, its reports often figure in news media as authoritative sources on international issues. Ever since the 1980s and, increasingly so, after the turn of the […]
RT | July 31, 2017 Colorado communities whose drinking water supply was contaminated by chemicals used at the Peterson Air Force Base are frustrated as the military is refusing to reimburse their cleanup costs and promising aid only after years of environmental studies. Firefighting foam containing perfluorinated compounds (PFCs) has seeped into the Widefield Aquifer […]
Sputnik – July 26, 2017 On Tuesday, the US Air Force finally acknowledged responsibility for contaminating the water at a east Colorado Springs air base and its surrounding areas. In a report released Tuesday, service investigators confirmed that groundwater surrounding Peterson Air Force Base had been tainted by perfluorinated firefighting foam chemicals, based on dozens of water and […]
RT | July 24, 2017 The Japanese prefecture of Okinawa filed a new lawsuit against the government demanding a halt to construction work for the relocation of the US Futenma base, local media report. The relocation has been the target of protests among locals. The prefectural authorities say that Tokyo is acting illegally without permission […]
Sputnik – 19.07.2017 Hundreds of containers with radioactive materials inside have been reportedly stolen from a nuclear storage facility in central Ukraine. An expert told Sputnik about the consequences this and other such cases could have for people in and outside the country. According to 1+1 TV channel, the containers with Cesium-137-contaminated soil and metals, […]
Sputnik – 18.07.2017 The US has come to an agreement with Panama to destroy a stockpile of mustard gas left over from secret human tests conducted by the Americans during and shortly after World War II. Tiny San Jose Island, with an area of 17 square miles and a permanent population of 10, once hosted […]
By Patrick Malone | The Center for Public Integrity | June 18, 2017 Technicians at the government’s Los Alamos National Laboratory settled on what seemed like a surefire way to win praise from their bosses in August 2011: In a hi-tech testing and manufacturing building pivotal to sustaining America’s nuclear arsenal, they gathered eight rods painstakingly […]
Palestine Center for Human Rights | November 1, 2013 The undersigned Palestinian NGOs call on the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO) and the Palestinian National Authority (PNA) to halt all forms of cooperation with the World Bank-sponsored Red Sea – Dead Sea Conveyance Project (RSDSCP) and to take an unequivocal public stance of rejection to the […]
Roland Oldham, head of the nuclear test veterans organization Mururoa e tatou, addresses UN conference to negotiate the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons on 21 June. By Roland Oldham – International Physicians for the Prevention of Nuclear War – July 3, 2017 Moruroa e Tatou, Tahiti – The nuclear bomb is a weapon […]
