Is the Department of Homeland Security Equipped to Handle High-Risk Chemical Facilities?

Home · Archives for bush

Is the Department of Homeland Security Equipped to Handle High-Risk Chemical Facilities?

by The Investigative Newswire on April 16, 2012 · comment

Pallets of 155 mm artillery shells containing "HD" (1) mustard gas at Pueblo chemical weapons storage facility in Colorado state, USA. Note the highly distinctive color coding scheme. The USA has been steadily destroying its entire stockpile of chemical weapons and will continue to do so until none remain. photo: Wikimedia Commons

Former Bush EPA chief sounds alarm on chemical security by Jim Morris for iWatch News Wading into a decade-old controversy, former Environmental Protection Agency chief Christine Todd Whitman has urged current EPA administrator Lisa Jackson to close loopholes in a [...]

The Settlement Story of Major Whistleblowers in the Banking Crisis

by The Investigative Newswire on March 19, 2012 · comment

Whistleblower. photo: ElectronicFrontierFoundation (Flickr Commons)

Four Whistleblowers Who Sounded the Alarm on Banks’ Mortgage Shenanigans by Cora Currier for ProPublica Buried in the sweeping mortgage settlementwith banks, for which final documents were filed this week, are five whistleblower casesthat shed light on the litany of foreclosure abuses by [...]

Iraq Missing Persons Report: VIDEO

by The Investigative Newswire on July 6, 2011 · comment

This agreement is between the ICMP, the Ministry of Human Rights, the Ministry of Health, the Ministry of Martyrs and Anfal Affairs and the Martyrs Foundation and relates to a specific three-year project that will investigate specific mass graves and surviving populations that can likely be linked to those graves.

Cables Reveal New Story in the Quest for Controlling Oil

by The Investigative Newswire on May 17, 2011 · comment

Gazprom, which grew out of the former Soviet Union's state gas ministry, had been busy buying up Yukos' far-flung empire, stoking American fears that soon Russia and its tough leader, Vladimir Putin, would control virtually all of the natural gas flowing to Europe. The United States wanted to stop that from happening. So the American embassy in Slovakia hired a Texas-based oil consultant and began secretly advising the Slovakian government on how to buy the 49 percent stake Yukos had held in Transpetrol, the Slovakian oil pipeline company.

Job Losses For Ohio Still Blame NAFTA & Globalization

by The Investigative Newswire on November 3, 2010 · comment

Many local factories still feel NAFTA’s sting Officials want overhaul of trade strategies By JOE VARDON Published in the Toledo Blade BLADE PROJECTS EDITOR Last of three parts More than 15 years after the North American Free Trade [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. – Who's Bailed Out?

by The Investigative Newswire on March 23, 2010 · comment

This detailed report from Pro Publica provides comprehensive data to the whereabouts of taxpayer dollars. We encourage all of our readers to take a close look at the long list of recipients. When viewing click on any recipient [...]