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  • IRAQ : Fears of cholera pandemic grow in northern Iraq
    1 September 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Fears of cholera pandemic grow in northern Iraq
    BAGHDAD, Aug. 30 (Xinhua)
    Fears of a cholera outbreak are growing in northern Iraq after dozens of cases were detected in two northern provinces, a medical source said on Thursday.
    "Cholera and diarrhea are spreading in the provinces Sulaimaniyah and Kirkuk after tests in the provincial hospitals’ laboratories confirmed the cases," the source from Kirkuk public hospital told Xinhua by telephone.
    The hospitals also sent the samples to (…)

  • South Asia Monsoon Crisis Presents An Opportunity To Learn And Prepare For Future Crisis.
    15 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Brian McAfee.
    Is the South Asia monsoon a harbinger of things to come and will we be ready next time around? The perennial monsoon floods that have devastated parts of Bangladesh, India, and Nepal are said to be the worst in 30 years.
    The death toll has surpassed 2,200. meanwhile, the event has made over twenty million people homeless and has resulted in massive crop failure, ensuring hunger, poverty and homelessness for millions of men, women and children in South Asia for some time (…)

  • Bush-Bin Laden Black Market Heroin Set to Boom in Afghanistan
    6 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Record poppy crop to be harvested in Afghanistan By Matthew Lee Associated Press Saturday, August 4, 2007
    WASHINGTON - Afghanistan will produce another record poppy harvest this year that cements its status as the world’s near-sole supplier of the heroin source, yet a furious debate over how to reverse the trend is stalling proposals to cut the crop, U.S. officials say.
    As President Bush prepares for weekend talks with Afghan President Hamid Karzai, divisions within the U.S. (…)

  • New Study: Purge or Be Purged
    2 August 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Wayne Besen
    A weighty new study released last week suggested that if you can’t make your podgy friends purge, you might have to purge your podgy friends. Harvard Medical School’s Dr. Nicholas A. Christakis reported in the New England Journal of Medicine that having a portly pal increased a person’s chances of becoming obese by a whopping 57-percent. That’s right, the weight of your friend Jim matters more than how much weight you lift in the gym.
    The most amazing part of the research (…)

  • Work: A Health Hazard for One in Three Europeans
    29 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    By Thomas Lemahieu
    Working conditions: According to a study recently presented in Paris the problem is far from resolved, particularly where labourers and women are concerned.
    A study involving 30,000 people from 31 countries, conducted in Autumn 2005 by the European Foundation for the Improvement of Living and Working Conditions, presented yesterday in Paris, revealed that one in three European wage-earners considers their job “affects their health”.
    Employees from the countries newly (…)

  • Overgrown Kids, Unshackled Ids, and the Death of the Superego
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." Sigmund Freud
    Frightening as it may be, the Earth’s fate rests in the hands of children. With incredibly formidable military firepower at its disposal, the United States could catalyze Armageddon at any time. And while they may be adults chronologically, our sociopolitical structure is dominated by emotional infants.
    Nietzsche once pronounced God dead. In the (…)

  • Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone By Sue Mueller
    9 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Need A Cooker? Use Your Cell Phone
    By Sue Mueller
    6-28-6 Many organizations including the cell phone industry often downplay the risk of cell phone radiation to the brain. Results from short-term studies were used to convince consumers that use of a cell phone is not associated with brain tumors or cancer, which only develop decades after exposure. To be fair, no one knows exactly how much harm a cell phone can do to a person. Howe Recently, new media has reported a study showing the (…)

  • The Forgotten War on Drugs and Election ’08
    6 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    James Harris: This is Truthdig. James Harris here again with Josh Scheer and in-studio guest Dr. Troy Duster. We’ve been talking off-air about the relationship between the war on drugs and unemployment in poor and minority communities. Dr. Duster, for the record, why is it critical that we understand the war on drugs as it relates to social progress and perhaps social policy?
    Troy Duster: People often get trapped into the immediacy of the drug war. They believe that the police are the bad (…)

  • Zyklon B on the US Border By ALEXANDER COCKBURN (COUNTERPUNCH)
    2 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    Zyklon B on the US Border
    By ALEXANDER COCKBURN
    Zyklon B came to El Paso in the 1920s. In 1929, for example, a U.S. Public Health Service officer, J.R. Hurley, ordered $25 worth of the material—hydrocyanic acid in pellet form—as a fumigating agent for use at the El Paso delousing station, where Mexicans crossed the border from Juárez. Zyklon, developed by DEGESCH (the German Vermin-combating Corporation) was made in varying strengths, with Zyklon C, D and E representing gradations in (…)

  • US-Vietnam Group Tackles Toxic Agent Orange Legacy
    26 June 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    The Ford Foundation is coordinating the U.S.-Vietnam Dialogue Group on Agent Orange. The group’s aim is to build a bipartisan humanitarian approach to cleaning up "Agent Orange." It says past diplomatic efforts have been difficult.
    One member of the group, Todd Whitman says the time is right for the two countries to address the chemical’s legacy and to bring discussion of the unresolved issue into the mainstream.
    Agent Orange was used by the U.S. military to strip jungle cover in (…)