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Tag: Hazards

  • Violence in Costa Rica and the Rush to Blame Nicaragua

    Traditionally regarded as safe for visitors, Costa Rica has recently become Central America’s second most dangerous country, with 400 homicides recorded so far this year. The violence is attributed to an epidemic of drug-related crime, as the country has become a major staging post for narcotics smuggled to Europe. Costa Rica just detained a former […]

  • Russia Deploys “Game Changer” Weapon against Ukraine

    Russia Deploys “Game Changer” Weapon against Ukraine

    ©  Telegram / mod_russia Russia’s Defense Ministry has released footage of an Su-34 bomber dropping FAB-500 glide munitions, which have been hailed as a game-changer in the Ukraine conflict for their destructive potential and deployment range of up to 80km. In a video that appears to be shot from a camera attached to the side […]

  • Don Quixote Challenges the Gun Industry

    Don Quixote Challenges the Gun Industry

    When the chaos subsided after the Columbine school tragedy in 1999 and investigators were given opportunity to review law enforcement’s conduct in a calm and clear-headed manner, it was determined that police tactics had been inappropriate. Had police rushed in more quickly towards the sound of gunfire, it’s likely that some of the 12 students (and one teacher) killed that […]

  • Judicial Murder in Alabama

    During the evening of January 25, Kenneth Eugene Smith, having failed to convince the US Supreme Court to delay his execution, became yet another victim of judicial, state-sanctioned murder.  A previous, failed effort, using lethal injection, had been made in 2022.  On this occasion, it was the state of Alabama which sought to bloody (or […]

  • Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death

    Tunnels for Safety and Tunnels for Death

    Negev Nuclear Research Center photographed by a U.S. reconnaissance satellite in 1968 Declassified Public Domain It’s one thing to burrow beneath the ground, digging to construct a tunnel for refuge, a passage of goods, or to store weapons during a time of war. It’s quite another to use one hand, as a small child, to […]

  • Depleted Uranium Added to Toxic Mess in Ukraine

    Depleted Uranium Added to Toxic Mess in Ukraine

     Following on from its decision to donate widely banned cluster munitions to Ukraine the US is sending armor-piercing depleted uranium (DU) munitions to fight Russia. Indifferent to the poisonous effect of these weapons, the Justin Trudeau government has remained mum on Washington’s escalatory move. Depleted uranium (DU) is a by-product from the production of fuel […]

  • Border Massacres: The Saudi Ethiopian Migrant Killings

    We know what the regime is like.  Starving a country, bombing its hospitals and strafing its schools has been minor fare for the Kingdom of Saudi Arabia.  The population of Yemen has found this out to their colossal cost.  Add to this the killing of dissident journalists, the enthusiastic employment of capital punishment, and an […]

  • “US-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis”

    “US-Backed Roll of the Dice Leaves Ukraine in Worse Crisis”

    President Biden speaks to General Mark Milley after his 2023 State of the Union speech. (Photo credit: Francis Chung/Politico) President Biden wrote in the New York Times in June 2022 that the United States was arming Ukraine to “fight on the battlefield and be in the strongest possible position at the negotiating table.” Ukraine’s fall […]

  • Indoctrination, Intimidation and Intolerance: What Passes for Education Today

    Every day in communities across the United States, children and adolescents spend the majority of their waking hours in schools that have increasingly come to resemble places of detention more than places of learning. — Annette Fuentes Investigative journalist, When the School House Becomes a Jail House This is what it means to go back-to-school […]

  • The Wild Nation

    America is the most weaponized nation domestically and internationally in the entire world. Our military orders so many weapons that the war industries can hardly keep up with the demand. America has never stopped being its own “Wild West.” Yet, despite domestic gun violence and deaths reaching epidemic proportions, Congress remains chained to the gun […]

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