Case documented in Dallas takes focus away from broader crisis of underdevelopment On Sept. 28 Patrick Eric Duncan was finally admitted to the Texas Health Presbyterian Hospital in Dallas where he was diagnosed with the…
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Delegation found dead in Guinea while disease continues to spread A team of eight experts and journalists visiting the southern region of the West African state of Guinea were found dead in the town of…
By analyzing CIA documents from earlier days, we can understand the programs of the Agency and its government cousins. Given the fact that the CIA’s umbrella research program, MKULTRA, went completely dark in 1962, and…
Gas Company Admits Severe Threat to Peru’s Tribes, Pushes Ahead Anyway Pluspetrol also acknowledges that contact between its workers and indigenous peoples in ‘voluntary isolation’ and ‘initial contact’ (IPVIIC) is“probable” during its…
In October 2013, the US Food and Drug Administration will hold a two-day public meeting to discuss genetic modification within the human egg, which changes will be passed on generationally. The United Kingdom is also…
[The 4th Media editor’s note: This article is about another newly-revealed case of the “numerous war crimes” which haven’t been yet fully-revealed, -admitted, and -compensated by the post-war Japanese governments of their imperial ancestors’ heinous…
The death of remarkable Australian mountaineer Lincoln Hall from mesothelioma last month, at the age of just 56, has brought back into sharp focus the deadly properties of asbestos. Hall was a man so tough…
Since the very first tar balls began rolling onshore along the Gulf of Mexico following 2010’s Deepwater Horizon oilrig explosion and subsequent underwater oil geyser, the oil industry told us to relax because those tar balls…
A resident in Xi’an, Shaanxi province, holds a satiated tick picked from the body of his pet dog. [Deng Xiaowei / China Daily] BEIJING – A newly discovered tick-borne disease may endanger people in close…