In the latest of a string of mass animal deaths, 10,000 cows and buffalo have died in Vietnam. From the Huffington Post Vietnam’s Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development confirmed the news this week that more than 10,000 cows and buffalos died nationwide due to harsh weather conditions. Cattle have been dying throughout Vietnam, which [...]
Monsanto has a monopoly on the world’s genetically modified crops, owning and controlling approximately 90% of all the GMOs. This poses a huge problem. Via the Board Magazine Because they control the plants and the seeds, outside of their own labs there has been little if any research related to the safety of the foods [...]
Let It Burn; let them die By Ryan Stock in t r u t h o u t “A fabulous Easter gift,” commented Monsanto Director of Development Initiatives Elizabeth Vancil. Nearly 60,000 seed sacks of hybrid corn seeds and other vegetable seeds were donated to post-earthquake Haiti by Monsanto. In observance of World Environment Day, June [...]
Thou preparest a table before me in the presence of mine enemies. Thou anointest my head with oil. My cup runneth over. (Psalms 23:5) As this, the 43rd anniversary of my wounding in Vietnam approaches, and I once again try to find meaning in that day and the days which were to follow, my thoughts [...]
In Vietnam, 30 years after the war, Agent Orange is still claiming victims. Used on a massive scale by the US army to prevent Viet Cong soldiers from hiding, this powerful herbicide permeated the ground. From encephalitis to congenital deformities and leukaemia, thousands of children are being born severely handicapped due to the chemical. By [...]
A lot of attention has been given to the “birthplace” of Agent Orange at Fort Detrick, Md. The recent news conference by Randal Craig espoused that only 16 pounds of Agent Orange was tested at Detrick, never mentioning the other spraying of Agents White (arsenic) and Agent Blue (picloram and tardon, both cancer agents). There [...]
Len Aldis, Britian Vietnam Friendship Society (BVFS) Len Aldis is a Brit who has worked hard for decades to bring the Agent Orange (AO) issue to the world’s attention. He is much loved in Vietnam. He publishes a quarterly newsletter on AO, Unexploded Ordances (UXOs) and related news about Vietnam. If you want to get [...]
By Carol Brown Parker Co-President Agent Orange Association of Canada Inc. I am the Co-President of the Agent Orange Association of Canada Inc. Our home office is in Westfield, N.B. not far from CFB Gagetown. My father was a WW2 Veteran and we were stationed in CFB Gagetown 1956 onward. I am helping Military & [...]
Time Magazine called King’s anti-war speech “demagogic slander that sounded like a script for Radio Hanoi,” and the Washington Post declared that King had “diminished his usefulness to his cause, his country, his people.” Not much has changed with Time and the Post, who beat the war drums today for a strike against Iran and the [...]
TAMPA — It seemed as if everyone had a story about illness or death. They filled the room. By William R. Levesque, St. Petersburg Times Staff Writer Men and women with breast cancer. Prostate cancer. Bladder cancer. Disorders of the nervous system. The parents of babies who died days after birth. Husbands and wives who [...]
“If you control the food, you can control the people.” – Henry Kissinger Under the guise of protecting Americans from food-borne illnesses, Congress has passed the S510 Food Safety Act, granting unlimited power to the FDA to oversee the processing of food from farm to table. The FDA has led the public to believe over [...]
TAMPA – David Bedworth takes medication, hoping to ward off any seizures. He knows bright lights and loud noises can trigger them. By Tanya Arja, FOX 13 News reporter (Tampa Bay) For 23 years, he was active duty military, a proud member of the U.S. Marines. He got out and went to work for the [...]
By Delia Quigley in Care 2: Healthy and Living Green Lots of talk these days about the bullying of young boys and girls in school by more aggressive students. This brings to my mind the biggest bully of all: the biotech company, Monsanto Corporation. Taken in context, Monsanto’s list of corporate crimes should have been [...]
HA NOI – The Ha Noi Fund for Agent Orange (AO)/dioxin Victims was launched today. The fund, established by the Municipal Association of AO Victims, is expected to mobilise different sources from both inside and outside of the country to care for and help AO victims in the city improve their living conditions and integrate [...]
Retired Master Sergeant LeRoy Foster is haunted by the job that launched his 20-year career in the US Air Force—spraying herbicides along perimeter fences and fuel pipelines at Andersen Air Force Base in Guam. This duty seemed inconsequential, field maintenance work done amid B-52 bombers thundering in and out to refuel for bombing raids over [...]
Violence and lies of the Vietnam War echo through the decades with deadly poison; now we slowly clean up. The US Agency for International Development and the Ministry of Defence organized a conference on January 13 to seek ways to tackle pollution at Danang International Airport in central Vietnam. Participants in the conference discussed plans [...]
How sad that our United States government, in addition to its various other transgressions, is apparently throwing its weight around to help a shadowy company – Monsanto– sell dangerous food to the world’s hungry. News of this is more fallout from the Wikileaks saga. From Lawyers on Strike Because the System Is Broken Monsanto’s previous [...]
Janey Ensminger wanted to be known as the girl who lived. The 9-year-old lay in a North Carolina hospital room in 1985, her body broken by leukemia. Her mouth was covered in sores. Everything hurt.
After taking nominations for the Most Evil Corporation of the Year survey from our readers, we hosted an online survey that allowed readers to vote on this question. Over 16,000 readers voted in our online survey from January 5 through 9, 2011. Astonishingly, fifty-one percent of all votes went to Monsanto as the Most Evil [...]
Dear Friends, After I sent out the obituary from BBC last week,I was reminded by several of you that the Vang Pao that many new first-hand was quite different than the exiled hero some have portrayed him as. What follows are several first-hand accounts by a long time activist who spent many years in Laos [...]
Vang Pao, the former general and leader of his Hmong ethnic group in Laos, has died in exile in the US, aged 81 From the BBC He had been in hospital for about 10 days before his death late on Thursday. As a young man, he had fought against the Japanese during World War II, [...]
So far Monsanto is beating out BP. NaturalNews) Which corporation deserves to win the “Most Evil Corporation of the Year” award for 2010? NaturalNews readers can voice their views on this question by voting in our online survey (below). The candidates for the “Most Evil Corporation of the Year” award include Monsanto, Pfizer, the Federal [...]
Maryland public health officials say certain cancers appear to occur at younger ages among people living near Fort Detrick in Frederick than in people statewide. AP Clifford Mitchell of the Department of Health and Mental Hygiene said Monday that investigators will probe deeper into the discrepancies involving liver, bone and endocrine cancers. The most marked [...]
(NaturalNews) When India’s seed economy was forced by the World Bank to become globalized in the late 1990s, economic conditions within the nation’s agricultural sector almost immediately took a nosedive for the worst. Much of the common Indian seed stock turned from saveable heirloom varieties to patented, genetically-modified (GM) varieties that expire after a single [...]
Australian Prime Minister Malcolm Fraser’s (1975-1983) cabinet resisted growing calls throughout 1980 for a judicial inquiry into the effects of Agent Orange on Vietnam veterans and their children because it would have put the government in an “impossible position”, secret cabinet documents show. By Emma Rodgers at ABC (Australian Broadcasting Corporation) News Around 41,000 Australians served [...]
HANOI (AFP) – Vietnam and the United States aim to start cleaning up contamination from Agent Orange at a former wartime US base in the middle of next year, the US embassy said Thursday. A memorandum signed between the two sides “confirms the mutual desire of both governments to cooperate in hopes that cleanup can [...]
The letter below went out today asking the VA, Central Brain Tumor Registry of United States and American Brain Tumor Association to start tracking the statistical rate of brain cancer occurring in our veterans. Dear Sir: The widows and families of Vietnam Veteran Wives are asking Veterans Affairs, The Central Brain Tumor Registry and The [...]
(NaturalNews) Australian organic farmer Steve Marsh recently had his organic certification status pulled by the National Association for Sustainable Agriculture, Australia (NASAA) because his organic wheat field was contaminated by a nearby genetically-modified (GM) canola field. And after Marsh threatened to sue the GM farmer for the incident — which has cost Marsh his entire [...]
Responding to heightened publicity and an uneven smattering of decisions on claims, the Department of Veterans Affairs will begin training a specialized cadre of workers this week to handle disability claims related to historic water contamination at Marine Corps Base Camp Lejeune, N.C. By Barbara Barrett McClatchy Newspapers The agency will consolidate claims at one [...]
The federal government is extending the deadline to apply for compensation for Agent Orange exposure at Canadian Forces Base Gagetown By Louise Elliott, CBC News It has issued an order-in-council that would move the deadline for applying for the $20,000 ex gratia payment to June 30, 2011, from Oct. 1, 2010. Earlier this month, the [...]
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