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‘Only the Beginning’: Three Face Criminal Charges In Flint Water Crisis

Two employees of the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality and one city employee charged in lead poisoning disaster

Nadia Prupis
بواسطة Nadia Prupis
Michigan Attorney General Bill Schuette addresses the media, Wednesday, April 20, 2016, in Flint, Mich. Months after officials conceded that a series of bad decisions had caused a disaster, charges were filed against a pair of state Department of Environmental Quality employees and a local water treatment supervisor and stem from an investigation by the office of the attorney general. (AP Photo/Carlos Osorio)

Update: According to MLive, the individuals charged are Flint employee Michael Glasgow and Michigan Department of Environmental Quality employees Steven Busch and Michael Prysby. MLive reports: Glasgow is accused of tampering with evidence when he allegedly changed testing results to show there was less lead in city water than there actually

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Teflon Pollutes The World: Deadly Chemical Spreads Into Global Water Supplies

From Holland to Ohio, PFOA, the toxic key ingredient in Teflon, has spread into waterways and rivers from former DuPont factories.

Kit O'Connell
بواسطة Kit O'Connell
In this Jan. 21, 2016, file photo, Michael Hickey poses near Hoosick Falls municipal well 7 between two baseball fields in Hoosick Falls, N.Y. PFOA, long used in the manufacuring of Teflon pans, Gore-Tex jackets, ski wax, and many other products has turned up in the water in factory towns around the country like Hoosick Falls. Hickey, a local insurance underwriter, exposed the contamination in Hoosick Falls, a bucolic community near the Vermont state line. (AP/Mike Groll)

WILMINGTON, Delaware --- Earlier this month, climate and health activists from West Virginia and Ohio met with their Dutch counterparts to discuss the pollution caused by a chemical that was once a key ingredient in the non-stick coating Teflon. Members of Keep Your Promises, DuPont, a group targeting contamination caused by PFOA, also known as

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Billionaires Give $12.3M To Dems & Hillary Via Joint Fundraising Committee Loophole

While past presidential candidates waited until they received the nomination to join joint fundraising committees, the Hillary Victory Committee has already distributed over $44 million to her campaign and other Democratic candidates.

MintPress News Desk
بواسطة MintPress News Desk
Democratic presidential candidate Hillary Clinton speaks to supporters after winning the New York state primary election, Tuesday, April 19, 2016, in New York. (AP Photo/Kathy Willens)

WASHINGTON --- Some of the country’s Democrats with the deepest pockets are outspending their conservative counterparts in the race to exploit a complex campaign finance loophole. In an April 15 analysis, Will Tucker, the money-in-politics reporter for Open Secrets, a project of the Center For Responsive Politics, reported that top “mega-donors”

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BRICS Under Attack: Western Banks, Governments Launch Full-Spectrum Assault On Russia (Part I)

Russia is the target of a multi-faceted, asymmetric campaign of destabilization that has employed economic, political, and psychological forms of warfare — each of which has been specifically designed to inflict maximum damage on the Kremlin.

Eric Draitser
بواسطة Eric Draitser
U.S. Marine Corps amphibious assault vehicles line up by the Trondheim Fjord, Norway, Jan. 9. These vehicles from the Marine Corps Prepositioning Program-Norway will support exercise Cold Response 16, scheduled for later this month, with crisis response equipment including M1A1 battle tanks, amphibious assault vehicles, artillery, and logistics equipment drawn from Norwegian caves. (Photo: U.S. Marine Corps)

This article is part of a series on Western meddling to foment unrest and destabilize BRICS nations in an effort to ensure the continuation of Western economic and political control over the Global South. The first two parts, focusing on Brazil and South Africa, can be found here and here. Up next: Part II on the assault on Russia, which focuses on

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Human Rights Activists Call On IRS To Investigate Jewish National Fund Charitable Status

A Palestinian boy protests outside a wealthy Israeli settlement. (Photo: Garry Walsh/flickr) On Tuesday, Tax Day, activists delivered a petition with more than 5,000 signatures to IRS offices across the United States demanding the tax-exempt status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) be revoked due to its role in displacing Palestinians and supporting illegal Israeli settlements. […]

IMEMC News
بواسطة IMEMC News
Stolen land in the Hebron hills

On Tuesday, Tax Day, activists delivered a petition with more than 5,000 signatures to IRS offices across the United States demanding the tax-exempt status of the Jewish National Fund (JNF) be revoked due to its role in displacing Palestinians and supporting illegal Israeli settlements. The petition was delivered to offices in Oakland, San

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British Spy Agency Comes Clean About It’s Own Systematic Discrimination

The director of GCHQ apologized to all those unfairly dismissed as a result of the archaic policies, which included a ban on LGBT people joining the agency until the 1990s.

Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia
بواسطة Michaela Whitton | AntiMedia

United Kingdom — Britain’s secret intelligence agency has apologized for the “horrifying” treatment of one of its most famous members, as well as for the organisation’s historic prejudice against homosexuality. Speaking at a conference organised by LGBT rights charity, Stonewall, Robert Hannigan — director of Government Communications Headquarters

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