toxic waste
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Nova – Trafigura 17 May 2010
Witnesses and victims describe the aftermath of Trafigura’s dumping of lethal toxic waste in the Ivory Coast. In Dutch with English subtitles. Continue reading
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TVA Coal Ash Spill + 2.6 Million Cubic Yards of Toxic Coal Ash Slurry Released in TN Dike Burst
An environmental disaster of epic proportions has occurred in Tennessee. Monday night, 2.6 million cubic yards (the equivalent of 525.2 million gallons, 48 times more than the Exxon Valdez spill by volume) of coal ash sludge broke through a dike of a 40-acre holding pond at TVA’s Kingston coal-fired power plant covering 400 acres up… Continue reading
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The Capitalist Shakedown By William Bowles
I can’t tell you how many times I’ve started this essay on the Capitalist Shakedown that’s going on around us, totally disconnected from us even, due to some pretty nifty media work and, I might add, thirty years of revanchism on the part of our political masters to disconnect us all from the political process. Continue reading
The New Dark Age 