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Pat Elder
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Dark Waters Tells Half the Story of PFAS Contamination
Environment, North America
Mark Ruffalo as Rob Billot in Dark Waters.
Dark Waters is the most important American film in a decade, although it squanders an opportunity to fully portray PFAS* contamination as the nationwide human health epidemic it has become. The film leaves out half of…
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A Military Psy-Ops Campaign in the Heart of Washington is Directed at U.S. Citizens
Nonviolent Activism, North America, South America
World BEYOND War, May 6, 2019
I’ve been studying the Pentagon’s use of psychological tactics in the way it recruits youth into the armed forces for 20 years, so I have a sense of the lack of boundaries practiced by the US government…
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Photo Essay: The Military is Poisoning America’s Groundwater
Bases, Endangerment, Environment, North America
PFAS found in drinking water near Battle Creek National Guard Base.
America is experiencing one of the greatest public health crises in its history with up to 110 million people potentially exposed to…
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An Empire of Bases Poisons Water, Threatening Its Own Collapse
The U.S. military’s fire-fighting foam is contaminating groundwater and sickening people in communities near U.S. military bases around the world
Double, double toil and trouble;
Fire burn and caldron bubble.
Fillet of a fenny snake,
In the caldron boil and bake.
Macbeth, William…