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Hanoi, Socialist Republic of Vietnam, 9th August, 2011
The Second International Conference of Victims of Agent Orange/dioxin, held in Hanoi from August 8th to 9th, 2011 included participants from around the world: Agent Orange victims, victims of other toxic chemicals, scientists, lawyers and social activists. The conference is a significant and important historic event, marking the 50th anniversary of the first spraying of the toxic chemical Agent Orange (1961-1971) by the U.S. forces (…)

Rebranding A Failed Product
by Frank Scott
"While Obama’s rhetoric is often of peace and nuclear disarmament, his military budget has increased by 20 billion dollars."
Creating a new label in order to sell an old product has long been a successful marketing technique, and our new president has developed rebranding methods with more finesse and as little substance as past administrators. While he plans to send thousands more troops to Afghanistan and spend billions more for weaponry, he (…)

The Miserable Ones By David Glenn Cox
I’m going to tell you a story today, it’s a story about you and me and it’s a story about a father and son. In a larger sense it’s a story about America because a story like this only happens in America. I doubt that it happens even in third world countries but it might happen in places like India where people live in wretched poverty, and it might happen during times of war or famine, but this is America, isn’t it?
On July 11, an eleven year old boy (…)

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Tom Blackwell
National Post
"The burden of the strike aorties fell on the shoulders of predominately the Canadians, the British and the French,’ said the NATO official. ’I must say that, Canada in particular, being the smaller of those air forces, once again punched well above its weight.."
]->http://news.nationalpost.com/2011/08/25/canada-contributed-a-disproportionate-amount-to-libya-air-strikes-sources/]
War crimes charges against NATO’s Canadian commander, Charles Bouchard and (…)

Jewish teenager violently arrested for speaking truth about Palestine
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uDNMVYjAilY&feature=youtu.be

Expected rains have failed to arrive for successive seasons in and around Somalia, Ethiopia and Kenya. The absence has in turn caused severe shortages of food and water for millions of people. OXFAM’s Humanitarian Director Jane Cocking said, “This is the worst food crisis of the 21st Century and we are seriously concerned that large numbers of lives could soon be lost.” She added, “Two successive poor rains, entrenched poverty and lack of investment in affected areas have pushed 12 (…)

Sensible public policy depends upon rational risk management, which successively involves (a) correct data, (b) science-based analysis (science involving the critical testing of potentially falsifiable hypotheses) and (c) informed systemic change to minimize risk. Unfortunately this process is typically perverted by (a) incorrect information from error, ignorance, lying by omission and commission, censorship, intimidation), (b) anti-science spin-based analysis (the selective use of asserted (…)

After watching the news tonight I can tell you the following:
60 million people are in huricane Irene’s path
NYPD is getting out their row boats
NYC will shut down mass transit on Saturday
I can tell you what cities are likely to be hardest hit.
I can tell you the expected strength of the winds and to watch out for tornadoes.
I can tell you the name of the little gal who had to cancel her wedding at Nags Head.
But do you know what wasn’t mentioned AT ALL?
There are one (…)

NATO’s Libya War: A Nuremberg Level Crime Stephen Lendman
The US/UK/French-led war on Libya will be remembered as one of history’s greatest crimes. It violates the letter and spirit of international law and America’s Constitution.
The Nuremberg Tribunal’s Chief Justice Robert Jackson (a US Supreme Court Justice) called Nazi war crimes "the supreme international crime against peace."
His November 21, 1945 opening remarks said:
"The wrongs which we seek to condemn and punish have (…)