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Despite "All Clear," Mississippi Sound Tests Positive for Oil On August 19, Truthout accompanied two commercial fishermen from Mississippi on a trip into the Mississippi Sound to test for the presence of submerged oil. Laboratory test results from samples taken on that trip show EXTREMELY high concentrations of oil in the Mississippi Sound. Meanwhile, the State of Mississippi has declared its waters safe for commercial fishing and YOU, the consumer. Who are you going to believe?

(1 comments) SHARE        Friday, August 27, 2010
Fish Kills Worry Gulf Scientists, Fishers, Environmentalists "By our estimates there were thousands - and I'm talking about 5,000 to 15,000 - dead fish," St. Bernard Parish President Craig Taffaro told reporters. "Different species were found dead, including crabs, sting rays, eel, drum, speckled trout, red fish, you name it, included in that kill."

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Widespread Fish Kills Worry Gulf Scientists, Fishers, Environmentalists OCEAN SPRINGS, Mississippi, U.S., Aug 26, 2010 (IPS) - Another massive fish kill, this time in Louisiana, has alarmed scientists, fishers and environmentalists who believe they are caused by oil and dispersants.

(11 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 22, 2010
Destruction along the Gulf. How Has it Come to This? The scenes Dahr Jamail and Erika Blumenfeld describe and photograph in this, their latest investigative report on the Great Gulf Oil Disaster could easily represent scenes from a post-apocalyptic movie. The trouble is, they are real, all too real and growing.

(3 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 16, 2010
Uncovering the Lies That Are Sinking the Oil The rampant use of toxic dispersents, out-of-state private contractors brought in to spray them and US Coast Guard complicity are common stories now in the 4 states most affected by BP's Gulf of Mexico oil disaster. Commercial and charter fishermen, residents and members of BP's VOO program in Florida, Alabama, Mississippi and Louisiana have spoken with Truthout about their witnessing all of these incidents.

SHARE        Tuesday, August 10, 2010
Gulf Coast Fishermen Challenge US Government Over Dispersants Kathy Birren, a spokesperson for commercial fishermen in Florida, said, "They are letting the person who committed the crime clean up the crime scene...It is time that government step up and protect us, our Gulf and the American public from further and possibly irreversible harm."

(2 comments) SHARE        Monday, August 9, 2010
Out of Sight, Out of Mind (Even when it's not out of sight) The lives of Gulf coast fishermen and residents are being destroyed. Scientists, environmentalists, and toxicologists are describing the Gulf of Mexico as a growing dead zone, a kill zone, and an energy sacrifice zone. As you read this, oil is everywhere around southeastern Louisiana, and continually washing ashore in Alabama and Mississippi.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, August 8, 2010
Chernobyl Then, the Gulf Now: Out of Sight, Out of Mind We are witnessing an incredibly powerful propaganda campaign from the US Gov't which, clearly acting in BP's best interests, announced, via compliant media like the New York Times that "three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated -- and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm".

SHARE        Thursday, August 5, 2010
Gulf Residents Likely Face Decades of Psychological Impact From BP's Oil Disaster According to Dr. Anthony Ladd, a professor of sociology at Loyola University, "The key, long-term solution is for the US to wean itself from the oil-based economy--look down the road and start to transition to a clean, renewable alternative energy economy, that we should have started 20 years ago. Lack of knowledge is not the problem, it's lack of political will."

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, August 3, 2010
Scientists Deeply Concerned About BP Disaster's Long-Term Impact While scientists have found very large plumes of dispersed oil at depth, "I'm not sure that oil will ever get here as dispersed clouds. It's getting here as sunken clouds, because that's what they [BP] wanted it to do. Sink it, get it out of sight out of mind," Dr. Ed Cake, a biological oceanographer, as well as a marine and oyster biologist, said.

(1 comments) SHARE        Monday, July 19, 2010
BP's Scheme to Swindle the "Small People" Gulf Coast fishermen and others with lost income claims against British Petroleum (BP) are outraged by a recent announcement that the $20 billion government-administered claim fund will subtract money they earn by working on the cleanup effort from any future damage claims against BP.

(1 comments) SHARE        Wednesday, July 7, 2010
Mitigating Annihilation The more we see of this so-called cleanup and containment plan of BP's, the more it appears to be the second largest contributing factor in destroying the ecology and culture of the Gulf region, behind, of course, BP's oil volcano at the floor of the Gulf.

SHARE        Friday, June 4, 2010
PTSD Soldier Punished by Army "The way things are set up right now in the military is that if a soldier gets a chance to go to mental health, which is something military commanders tend to try to prevent from happening in the first place, but if soldiers go, psychologists and psychiatrists address and diagnose their PTSD and write it up, but this does not mean that they will get treatment," Iraq war veteran Eric Jasinski said.

(1 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, June 1, 2010
US Navy Veterans Continue to Seek Justice for Israeli Attack Meadors said he and his group, the USS Liberty Veterans Association, believe that Rear Adm. Lawrence Geis, the Sixth Fleet carrier division commander at the time of the attack, was following orders from Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, who called off the Navy's rescue mission for the USS Liberty.

(1 comments) SHARE        Saturday, May 22, 2010
Trucking Toward Climate Change The tar sands mining project in Alberta, Canada, is possibly the largest industrial project in human history and critics claim it could also be the most destructive. The mining procedure for extracting oil from a region referred to as the "tar sands," located north of Edmonton, releases at least three times the CO2 emissions as regular oil production procedures.

(5 comments) SHARE        Sunday, May 16, 2010
Arizona's War on Immigrants "A disturbing pattern of legislative activity hostile to ethnic minorities and immigrants has been established with the adoption of an immigration law that may allow for police action targeting individuals on the basis of their perceived ethnic origin," the experts said.

(2 comments) SHARE        Thursday, April 8, 2010
Iraq War Vet: "We Were Told to Just Shoot People, and the Officers Would Take Care of Us" What is happening in Iraq seems to reflect what psychiatrist Robert Jay Lifton calls "atrocity-producing situations." He used this term first in his book "The Nazi Doctors." In 2004, he wrote an article for The Nation, applying his insights to the Iraq War and occupation.

SHARE        Thursday, March 18, 2010
Operation Enduring Occupation According to Professor Zoltan Grossman of The Evergreen State College, who has been researching military bases and participating in the global network against foreign bases for several years, the US has no intention of releasing control of its bases in Iraq.

SHARE        Thursday, February 25, 2010
US Using Iraqi Political Discord to Justify Continuance of Occupation The elections have been seen as a pivotal point for the Obama administration, with the expectation that they would bring more political stability to Iraq, further enabling a US withdrawal. it would be delusional to say that the magical solution to Iraq's predicament resides in the elections, since quite the contrary, these elections could open the gates of hell.

(3 comments) SHARE        Tuesday, January 26, 2010
Soldiers Are Being Forced to Choose Between Their Children And the Military, And They're Paying the Price In Jailtime The Army put Hutchinson in the position of having to choose between caring for her infant son or deploying to Afghanistan. She chose to care for her son, and is paying the price. The lower command gets subtle pressure for them to stop [losing personnel], and ultimately people become disposable. And not just the soldier, but their kids, or their mother, father, sister, or infant."