Rep. Rush Holt speaking for his 2/25 anthrax investigation amendment

A major report on Gulf War Illness written by the VA Research Advisory Committee on Gulf War Veterans’ Illnesses (RAC) was made public on November 17. This is the most important document yet produced on Gulf War illnesses. About 1800 references are cited. The report gets it right about how many have developed the syndrome…

Alex Berenson has said that he has evidence the White House itself selected him as a target. The information below includes documents showing how CDC worked with social media to impose censorship.  Didn’t the federal brain trust know that emails leak and what they were doing was unlawful?  These people assumed they were untouchable.  Time…

Thanks to DS Wright at FireDogLake for this article with useful links.  Don’t miss Scott Shane’s Baltimore Sun piece of how intelligence agency trainees listened in to phone conversations by tapping microwave towers, as part of their training–in 1995! During the drama over the so-called Amash Amendment General Keith Alexander, head of the NSA, went to Capitol…

A letter published in the Journal of Environmental and Occupational Medicine, April 2004 described two lab workers using standard procedures to grow and handle anthrax at USAMRIID. Despite this, medium leaked from a flask and spores were recovered from the nares of one of the workers. The potential for inhalation anthrax was considered serious, and…

The following piece was written by DC Dave, who shares my take on the opioid crisis, and its roots in the US deployment in Afghanistan.  He has elaborated on the heroin epidemic, noting how the mass media have shied away from a realistic discussion and interpretation of the epidemic of injected opioids sweeping the world,…

An excellent piece discusses how turning over aspects of healthcare to private industry led to greater costs without accompanying benefits, and compares the US with other first world countries.