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Small Naval Facility in Southern Maryland, U.S., Causes Massive PFAS Contamination
Practice exercises using fire fighting foam are to blame. Navy says it discontinued the practice in the 1990’s.
Practice exercises using fire fighting foam are to blame. Navy says it discontinued the practice in the 1990’s.
There’s no good reason to assume the air war in Afghanistan will be over when — according to President Biden’s announcement on Wednesday — all U.S. forces will be withdrawn from that country.
This webinar was recorded on April 9, 2021.
This coming Friday, newly elected U.S. President Joe Biden will meet with Japan’s Prime Minister SUGA Yoshihide for a summit that the mainstream media has presented as democratic and peace-loving countries casually getting together in order to discuss what should be done about the “China problem.”
This weekend, over 100 concerned Canadians are holding a Fast Against Fighter Jets to call on the federal government to cancel its $19-billion competition for 88 new fighter jets.
A short film premiering for free on April 15th is called “Jet Line: Voicemails from the Flight Path.”
This weekend 100 people across Canada will be participating in the No Fighter Jet Coalition’s fast and vigils to oppose Canada’s planned purchase of 88 new fighter jets.
President Joe Biden is proposing a level of Pentagon spending so close to that of Trump’s last year in office that Bloomberg calls it a 0.4% reduction adjusting for inflation while Politico calls it a 1.5% increase and “effectively an inflation-adjusted budget boost.”
At this juncture, we call to mind two basic realities that need particular emphasis amid growing tension between Ukraine and Russia.