Danger Room from Wired.com
By Noah Shachtman
January 07, 2009 | 6:05:29 PM
For two decades or more, the CIA and the military allegedly plied the unwitting with acid, weed, and dozens of psychoactive drugs, in a series of zany (and sometimes dangerous) mind-control experiments. Now, the Vietnam Veterans of America are suing the agency and the Pentagon [...]

KBR knowingly exposed troops to toxins?:
Today James Gentry is dying from rare form of lung cancer. The result, he believes, of months of inhaling hexavalent chromium - an orange dust that’s part of a toxic chemical found all over the plant.
At least one other Indiana guardsman has already died from lung cancer, and others are [...]

FBI agents stage sting to snare corrupt Ill. cops…Duffel bags stuffed with cocaine were delivered by plane to an out-of-the-way suburban airport while two sheriff’s officers provided security. A police officer stood by to guard the cash and keep out the riffraff at a poker game where $100,000 changed hands. And a drug dealer was [...]

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Jeff Donn, Martha Mendoza and Justin Pritchard
Associated Press
Sun, 14 Sep 2008 20:05 EDT
U.S. hospitals and long-term care facilities annually flush millions of pounds of unused pharmaceuticals down the drain, pumping contaminants into America’s drinking water, according to an ongoing Associated Press investigation.

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German authorities look into allegation that RTP maker’s pesticide harms environment
Sabine Vollmer, Staff Writer
Bayer CropScience is facing scrutiny because of the effect one of its best-selling pesticides has had on honeybees.
A German prosecutor is investigating Werner Wenning, Bayer’s chairman, and Friedrich Berschauer, the head of Bayer CropScience, after critics alleged that they knowingly polluted the [...]

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David Gutierrez
Natural News
Fri, 22 Aug 2008 13:30 EDT
An investigation by the Associated Press (AP) has revealed that the drinking water of at least 41 million people in the United States is contaminated with pharmaceutical drugs. It has long been known that drugs are not wholly absorbed or broken down by the human body. Significant [...]

http://www.radioaustralia.net.au/…
Updated Sun Jul 6, 2008 1:49pm AEST
There are revelations the United States military was planning to test deadly nerve gas in north eastern Australia in far north Queensland rainforest in the 1960s.
Australian Defence Department files obtained by Australian television station Channel Nine, show the US was planning to test Sarin and VX nerve gas on [...]

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Daniel Foggo
Hundreds of endangered monkeys are being taken from the African bush and sent to a “secretive” laboratory in Iran for scientific experiments.

upi.com
Published: July 2, 2008 at 11:02 AM
The Pentagon is considering a plan to ship chemical weapons to U.S. military sites to speed up their destruction, a report to Congress indicated.

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Associated Press
WASHINGTON — An Arkansas man who worked as a contractor in Iraq says he lost his job after warning workers they were being exposed to a cancer-causing chemical there.