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  • U.N.: Afghanistan Sees Increase in Opium
    20 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By PAUL GEITNER
    Heroin production is booming in Afghanistan, undermining democracy and putting money in the coffers of terrorists, according to a U.N. report Thursday that called on U.S. and NATO-led forces get more involved in fighting drug traffickers.
    "Fighting narcotics is equivalent to fighting terrorism," said Antonio Maria Costa, executive director of the U.N. Office on Drugs and Crime. "It would be an historical error to abandon Afghanistan to opium, right after we reclaimed it (…)

  • Agent Orange Victims Sue Monsanto
    19 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Tom Fawthrop
    Vietnamese victims seek justice in New York court
    Tran Anh Kiet’s feet, hands and limbs are twisted and deformed. He is 21 years old, but trapped inside a body that appears to belong to a 15 year old with a mental age of around six. He has to be spoon-fed and writhes often in evident frustration. All his attempts at speech are confined to plaintive and pitiful grunts.
    In Kiet’s small community in Cu Chi district, about 45 kilometers from Ho Chi Minh city, south Vietnam, (…)

  • A mental health crisis is emerging, with one in six returning soldiers afflicted, experts say
    18 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Esther Schrader
    WASHINGTON - Matt LaBranche got the tattoos at a seedy place down the street from the Army hospital here where he was a patient in the psychiatric ward.
    The pain of the needle felt good to the 40-year-old former Army sergeant, whose memories of his nine months as a machine-gunner in Iraq had left him, he said, "feeling dead inside." LaBranche’s back is now covered in images, the largest the dark outline of a sword. Drawn from his neck to the small of his back, it is (…)

  • Woman facing death penalty for pot: How to help...
    16 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    This is a call for action to help save a young Australian woman’s life who is currently facing the death penalty in Bali for allegedly being caught with marijuana in a Balinese airport:
    A 27 year old Australian woman named Schapelle Leigh Corby, is facing the death penalty in Bali for being caught with 4 kilos of marijuana in her luggage at an airport in Bali. Ms Corby claims the marijuana was not hers and many of her supporters believe the marijuana may have been planted in her bag (…)

  • Vice President Cheney Hospitalized for Tests
    13 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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  • Reflections on the Suicide at Ground Zero
    13 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    "All suicides kill other people. However isolated the moment, suicide is also always an act of cruelty. Anyone left behind after someone close to them commits, or even attempts, suicide is likely to spend much of the rest of their life wondering whether they themselves have, or should have, survived. Suicide is rarely the singular, definitive act it appears to be. The ego, Freud tells us, turns onto itself the hatred it feels towards the object. But the object is never spared. No one commits (…)

  • The Puzzling Origins of AIDS
    5 November 2004 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by The Scientific Research Society
    American Scientist — Although no one explanation for the origin of AIDS has been universally accepted, four rival theories provide some important lessons.
    Shortly after the 1983 discovery of the human immunodeficiency virus (HIV), the pathogen responsible for AIDS, investigators became aware of a strangely similar immune deficiency disease afflicting Asian monkeys (macaques) held in captivity in various U.S. research labs. Soon, virologists identified (…)

  • U.S. Barred From Forcing Troops to Get Anthrax Shots
    29 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Marc Kaufman
    The Defense Department must immediately stop inoculating troops with anthrax vaccine, a federal judge ruled yesterday, saying that the Food and Drug Administration acted improperly when it approved the experimental injections for general use.
    Concluding that the FDA violated its own rules by approving the vaccine late last year, U.S. District Judge Emmet G. Sullivan said the mandatory vaccination program — which has inoculated more than 1.2 million troops since 1998 — is (…)

  • Depleted Uranium Released During Canadian Plane Crash
    24 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    Little-Known Use of DU in Commercial Jets Exposed
    By Christopher Bollyn
    The recent crash of a Boeing 747 in Halifax, Canada, raises a number of questions
    about the use of depleted uranium (DU) in airplanes, public health concerns and
    the 9-11 attacks. When a Boeing 747 crashed and burned on takeoff at Halifax
    International Airport in Nova Scotia, Canada, on Oct. 14, an official accident
    investigator said the aircraft probably contained radioactive depleted uranium. .../... (…)

  • Marine returns from Iraq to emotional ruin, suicide
    19 October 2004 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Associated Press
    Jeffrey Lucey was just an ordinary kid from small-town America. He grew up loving his parents, his high school sweetheart and backyard whiffle ball games in this quiet, picturesque community bordering the Quabbin Reservoir.
    Even his decision to enlist in the Marine Reserves in 1999 was run-of-the-mill, uncluttered by the anxious sense of patriotism that inspired many others to join the military after the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks.
    ``He just (…)