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U.S. MARINES! A Few Good Men Except For Toxic Waste

A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals, stands with the best works of New Journalism and Creative Nonfiction.

(CINCINNATI) - This poem celebrates the new book, A Few Good Men, Too Many Chemicals, which focuses on the contamination of the U.S. Marine Corps Air Station El Toro and other U.S. military bases.

It's co-authored by Salem-News.com writers Bob O'Dowd and Tim King.

California State Psychology Board Launches Psychiatric Probe of Activist Psychologist

Answers for those concerned about the increasing use of psychiatry as a tool of control by the State.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - The California State Psychology Board has launched an action against a Northern California psychologist and advocate for the disabled, and has ordered the practitioner into a psychiatric evaluation or face revocation of his license.

In an unprecedented deviation from the Board's mandate to investigate consumer complaints,

Michael Bloomberg Enters CA Prop. 29 (Cigarette Tax) Money Race with a $500K Contribution

The nonpartisan MapLight Voter Guide was made possible in part by a grant from the James Irvine Foundation.

(BERKELEY, CA) - A MapLight analysis of campaign contribution data from the California Secretary of State shows that a recent contribution of $500K from New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg raises the total for committees supporting California's Proposition 29 (Cigarette Tax) to $8.5 million.

Committees opposing California's Proposition 29 have raised nearly $40 million.

Report from the Front Lines in Riverside, California

“Toni Eggebraaten has embezzled thirty thousand dollars and I am therefore executing a citizen’s arrest. Bailiff, take Ms. Eggebraaten into custody”.

(RIVERSIDE, Ca.) - Today in Riverside Superior Court, Department 8, I attempted to execute a citizen’s arrest of an attorney.

Toni Eggebraaten, the attorney for the Family Trust for which I am a beneficiary, filed an accounting in which she attempted to obscure her embezzling thirty thousand dollars.

BUSTED! DoD Letter Discovered in Federal Register Proves TCE and Cancer Have Been Linked for Years

Boom! Caught with their pants down... includes the full nine page DoD memorandum from 2000.

(SALEM) - Scientific studies into the dangerous chemical TCE that pollutes U.S. military bases worldwide, drew the conclusion well over a decade ago, that it is a human carcinogen and it causes cancer.

Researcher and veteran's advocate, Gary Bass, located a letter in the Federal Register that the feds hoped we would never find.

Radiation at El Toro Hangar Unresolved

Marines who worked in the north mezzanine of Hangar 296 were at risk of exposure to Radium 226 and its radioactive decay products.

(IRVINE, CA) - An old WW II hangar over 200,000 square feet in area at former MCAS El Toro will not be on any tourist list now and maybe for years to come.

Hangar 296 is one of the primary sites of the TCE plume spreading into Orange County and reason for the base’s placement on the National Priority List (NPL), commonly referred to as the EPA Superfund.

Nakba Anniversary

We now have 12 universities inside occupied Palestinian.

(BETHLEHEM) - On this 64th anniversary of the Nakba we mourn the ethnic cleansing that began in 1948 and that continues today with silent transfer, home demolitions, land confiscation and more.

But we also celebrate an amazing resilience and success of the Palestinian endogenous people against incredible odds:

Cleanup for North Orange County Toxic Plume Could Cost $200 Million

A nation bent on military buildup that does not relent when it can, is truly one of the most dangerous.

(ANAHEIM, CA) - When it comes to environmental contamination in Orange County, California, we typically cover the south county eyesore that was once a Marine fighter base, the old MCAS El Toro.

Now, thanks to an article by Pat Brennan, published yesterday by the Orange County Register, we get the dirty details on another plume, this one in north Orange County.

MCAS El Toro: Southern California`s Environmental Nightmare

Who knows what lurks beneath your drain?

(IRVINE, CA) - Most Southern Californians are familiar with El Toro, the now-closed Marine Corps air base just an hour south of LA.

However many do not realize what a nightmare the air station became before the Marines vacated the place, and the last plane flew off into the hazy sunset in 1999.

Is Young America Waking Up While Old America Sleeps?

California high school student explores his country's ties with Israel.

(BANGKOK) - One of our regular contributors and good friend, Anthony Lawson, recently sent us an interesting article, which was, in turn, sent to him by a young Californian, Nicolaus Jannasch.

The article started as a senior class project, and before writing it, Nicolaus had contacted Anthony about a series of videos which Anthony has put together on AIPAC, and the Israeli-Palestinian conflict.