Ground the Drones
There are a number of hurdles to clear before you can get people to support banning armed drones or surveillance drones.
There are a number of hurdles to clear before you can get people to support banning armed drones or surveillance drones.
Just a few weeks ago, super hawk Michèle Flournoy was being touted as a virtual shoo-in to become Joe Biden’s nominee for Secretary of Defense. But some progressives insisted on organizing to raise key questions: Should we accept the revolving door that keeps spinning between the Pentagon and the weapons industry?
Australian journalist Peter Cronau and (ret.) U.S. Col. Ann Wright discuss the recently released Australian government report on war crimes in Afghanistan and the history of impunity of U.S. war crimes.
Maryland Department of the Environment’s conclusion about PFAS poisoning from military bases over-reaches the reasonable findings based on the actual data collected and falls short of acceptable scientific and industry standards on several fronts.
Last month the Maryland Department of the Environment released a report that found no cause for alarm regarding the presence of PFAS in the St. Mary’s River and its oysters near a navy base that dumped the substances into the water during routine fire-fighting exercises. The chemicals, per – and poly fluoroalkyl substances, are linked to cancer and fetal abnormalities.
Andrews, the “Home of Air Force 1” is the only base in the state known to poison both the Patuxent and the Potomac. PFAS may travel for miles. It contaminates fish and sickens people who consume it. Who knew?
Results from testing by watershed association and the US state of Maryland reveal contamination from nearby Navy base.
Nearly seven months ago, 300 concerned residents crammed into the Lexington Park library to hear the Navy defend its use of toxic PFAS at the Patuxent River Naval Air Station (Pax River) and the Webster Outlying Field. Where are the answers to our questions?
By waving all this through — refusing either to strike the new material out or grant an adjournment — Magistrate Vanessa Baraitser turbocharged the tradition written about long ago by Charles Dickens in A Tale of Two Cities, where he described the Old Bailey as, ’a choice illustration of the precept that “Whatever is, is right”’.
