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  • Cuba is a warm and caring hand of solidarity
    27 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Erasmo Magoulas
    In the vast majority of developing countries science is a commodity in the process of disappearing. Government policies in this area, rather than investing money and resources to increase areas of research, which would benefit the majority of their population, take away money and resources from science in order to fulfill the requirements of the International Monetary Fund, which is, pay the immoral external debt.
    Developed countries are not in any better shape. A huge (…)

  • Dem Proposes taking Millionaire’s Tax Cuts back, giving it to Vets Health Care- Repub shoots it down
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)

    Wisconsin Democrat David Obey proposed an amendment to reduce tax cuts for those making $1,000,000 or more per year and give the savings to Veterans Health Care. A Republican shot it down on a technicality.
    The text from the House Clerk:
    1:24 P.M. - Amendment offered by Mr. Obey.
    An amendment to reduce tax cuts for taxpayers with an adjusted gross income in excess of $1 million for taxable year 2006 by 8.125 percent and to use the resulting savings to increase funding for Veterans’ (…)

  • Kucinich enters results of secret GM study into Congressional record
    26 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "Mr. Speaker, I wish to bring the following article to the attention of my colleagues. We must continue to challenge the FDA’s assumption that all genetically engineered food is safe."
    From the Independent, May 22, 2005
    Revealed: Health Fears Over Secret Study Into GM Food
    By Geoffrey Lean
    Rats fed on a diet rich in genetically modified corn developed abnormalities to internal organs and changes to their blood, raising fears that human health could be affected by eating GM food. (…)

  • Soaring birth deformities and child cancer rates in Iraq
    10 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Iraqi doctors are making renewed efforts to bring to the world’s attention the growth in birth deformities and cancer rates among the country’s children. The medical crisis is being directly blamed on the widespread use of depleted uranium (DU) munitions by the US and British forces in southern Iraq during the 1991 Gulf War, and the even greater use of DU during the 2003 invasion.
    The rate of birth defects, after increasing ten-fold from 11 per 100,000 births in 1989 to 116 per 100,000 in (…)

  • Breast cancer activism in the USA
    5 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    by Laura Corradi, Ph.D. Amazons
    In the empire of wealth cancer hits one every three adults - while billion of dollars are spent in research, scientists are divided over causes of this illness and strategies of prevention. Two competing systems of explanation contend the cancer arena: the genetic-behavioristic paradigm (dominant) and the environmental-social paradigm (emergent).
    In this context, a cancer activism comes into sight as a new social movement against corporate polluters, and (…)

  • Horror Of US Depleted Uranium In Iraq Threatens World — "A crime against humanity"
    3 May 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    "I’m horrified. The people out there - the Iraqis, the media and the troops - risk the most appalling ill health. And the radiation from depleted uranium can travel literally anywhere. It’s going to destroy the lives of thousands of children, all over the world. We all know how far radiation can travel. Radiation from Chernobyl reached Wales and in Britain you sometimes get red dust from the Sahara on your car."
    The speaker is not some alarmist doomsayer. He is Dr. Chris Busby, the British (…)

  • Doctors warn of increasing deformities in newborn babies in Iraq
    29 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Doctors in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, have reported a significant increase in deformities among newborn babies.
    Health officials and scientists said this could be due to radiation passed through mothers following years of conflict in the country.
    The most affected regions are in the south of the country, particularly Basra and Najaf, according to experts. Weaponry used during the Gulf war in 1991 contained depleted uranium, which could be a primary source for the increase, scientists in (…)

  • Playing Politics at Kids’ Expense
    16 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Playing Politics at Kids’ Expense Bill would insulate pharmaceutical firms from liability by Robert F. Kennedy Jr. Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist has buried a provision in the "Protecting America in the War on Terror Act" to insulate the pharmaceutical industry from liability for venal actions that may have poisoned an entire generation of Americans.
    Mounting evidence suggests that Thimerosal, a mercury-based preservative in children’s vaccines, may be responsible for the exponential (…)

  • How the Bush Administration’s Biological Weapons Buildup Affects You
    14 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    A U.S. company recently sent vials of a 1957 pandemic flu strain to laboratories across the world by accident is only the latest outrage from the billion-dollar boondoggle called the federal biological weapons program.
    As you might recall, the Bush administration started its “biodefense” spending spree following the September 2001 deadly anthrax attacks, and one of its first projects was to genetically engineer a super-resistant, even more deadly version of the anthrax virus. (…)

  • Stories On Schiavo Protestor Miss One Point: He’s A Registered Sex Offender
    5 April 2005 par (Open-Publishing)
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    Stories On Schiavo Protestor Miss One Point: He’s A Registered Sex Offender E&P Staff March 28, 2005 NEW YORK As protests outside the hospice housing Terri Schiavo in her final days mounted last week, numerous newspaper reports, many based on an Associated Press account, mentioned or quoted 10-year-old Joshua Heldreth and/or his father, Scott Heldreth. Josh was one of several youngsters arrested for crossing police lines in Pinellas Park, Fla., in an effort to take water to Schiavo. (…)