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Cover-up News Summary
February 13, 2005
Cancer, Chemicals
and History
The Nation, Jan. 20, 2005
http://www.thenation.com/doc.mhtml?i=20050207&s=wiener
Twenty of the biggest chemical companies in the United States
have launched a campaign to discredit two historians who have studied the
industry's efforts to conceal links between their products and cancer. In an
unprecedented move, attorneys for Dow, Monsanto, Goodrich, Goodyear, Union
Carbide and others have subpoenaed and deposed five academics who recommended
that the University of California Press publish the book Deceit and Denial:
The Deadly Politics of Industrial Pollution, by Gerald Markowitz and David
Rosner.
Iraqi Refugee's Tale of
Abuse Dissolves Upon Later Scrutiny
New York Times,
Jan. 21, 2005
Testifying before the U.S. Senate
Foreign Relations Committee in July 2003 about the rebuilding of Iraq, Deputy
Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz told the story of Jumana Michael Hanna, an
Iraqi woman...with a tale of her horrific torture at the hands of Saddam
Hussein's regime. Hanna's tale - more than two years of imprisonment that
included being subjected to electric shocks, repeatedly raped and sexually
assaulted - was unusual in that she was willing to name the Iraqi police
officials who participated in her torture, "information that is helping us to
root out Baathist policemen who routinely tortured and killed prisoners,"
Wolfowitz said. But Hanna's story, which 10 days before Wolfowitz's testimony
had been the subject of a front-page article in the Washington Post, appears to
have unraveled. Esquire magazine, in this month's issue, published a lengthy
article, by a writer who was hired to help Hanna produce a memoir, saying that
her account had all but fallen apart.
THE COMING WARS, by Seymour
M. Hersch
The New Yorker, Jan. 24,
2005
“This is a war against terrorism, and
Iraq is just one campaign. The Bush Administration is looking at this as a huge
war zone,” the former high-level intelligence official told me. “Next, we’re
going to have the Iranian campaign." The President has signed a series of
findings and executive orders authorizing secret commando groups and other
Special Forces units to conduct covert operations against suspected terrorist
targets in as many as ten nations in the Middle East and South Asia. “The
Pentagon doesn’t feel obligated to report any of this to Congress,” the former
high-level intelligence official said. “They don’t even call it ‘covert
ops’—it’s too close to the C.I.A. phrase. In their view, it’s ‘black
reconnaissance.’ They’re not even going to tell the cincs”—the regional American military
commanders-in-chief.
Free trade leaves world food in grip of global giants
Guardian, Jan. 27, 2005
http://www.guardian.co.uk/globalisation/story/0,7369,1399480,00.html
Global food companies are aggravating poverty in developing countries
by dominating markets, buying up seed firms and forcing down prices for staple
goods including tea, coffee, milk, bananas and wheat, according to a report to
be launched today. Two companies dominate sales of half the world's bananas,
three trade 85% of the world's tea, and one, Wal-mart, now controls 40% of
Mexico's retail food sector. It also found that Monsanto controls 91% of the
global GM seed market. The UFO
Phenomenon -- Seeing Is Believing
ABC, Feb 4,
2005
http://abcnews.go.com/Primetime/story?id=468496&page=1
Almost 50 percent of
Americans, according to recent polls, and millions of people elsewhere in the
world believe that UFOs are real. For many it is a deeply held belief. For
decades there have been sightings of UFOs by millions and millions of people. On
Feb. 24, "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" takes a fresh
look at the UFO phenomenon. "As a journalist," says Jennings, "I began this
project with a healthy dose of skepticism and as open a mind as possible. After
almost 150 interviews with scientists, investigators, and with many of those who
claim to have witnessed unidentified flying objects, there are important
questions that have not been completely answered — and a great deal not fully
explained." "Peter Jennings Reporting: UFOs — Seeing Is Believing" airs
Thursday, Feb. 24 from 8-10 p.m. ET on ABC.
Microchips Counter Andes
Alpaca Smuggling
AP/ABC, Feb. 5,
2005 (More news trying to convince us that
microchipping is a good thing)
http://abcnews.go.com/International/wireStory?id=474567
Peruvian alpaca herders are turning to technology to thwart a growing
problem of the high Andes Mountains: the smuggling of prize-winning,
wool-producing alpacas to neighboring countries. An association of alpaca
farmers is surgically implanting microchips into hundreds of alpacas as part of
an effort to reduce illegal transport of the animals. A herd of 700 Alpacas had
microchips implanted in their neck muscles beneath their ears on Friday in the
high plains of Peru near the town of Nunoz, about 540 miles southeast of Lima.
Students ordered to wear tracking tags
MSNBC, Feb. 9, 2005
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/6942751/
The only grade school in this rural
town is requiring students to wear radio frequency identification badges that
can track their every move. Some parents are outraged, fearing it will rob their
children of privacy. InCom has paid the school several thousand dollars for
agreeing to the experiment, and has promised a royalty from each sale if the
system takes off, said the company's co-founder, Michael Dobson, who works as a
technology specialist in the town's high school.
More than 200
scientists employed by the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service say they have been
directed to alter official findings to lessen protections for plants and animals,
a survey released Wednesday says. More than half of the biologists and other
researchers who responded to the survey said they knew of cases in which commercial
interests, including timber, grazing, development and energy companies, had
applied political pressure to reverse scientific conclusions deemed harmful
to their business.
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