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Widows of Farmers Protest Obama Visit

The protesters offered prayers to all 216,000 cotton farmers who committed suicide since 1999.

(NAGPUR - INDIA TIMES) - The cotton growers of Vidarbha, who are suffering immensely due to the prevailing agrarian crisis, staged candlelight protests ahead of US President Barack Obama's India visit on Friday.

The GMO Elephant in the Room - from the Trenches of America`s Hidden Food War

Many scientists, farmers, pure food activists and a few brave politicians want you to know that it’s not too late to turn it around and recapture our agricultural heritage before the food ship sinks.

(SALEM, Ore.) - A large grass-roots movement is diligently advocating for your right to pure non-genetically modified food and honest labeling.

Study Shows Monsanto Roundup Herbicide Link to Birth Defects

New facts on one of America's most dangerous companies.

(FRANKFURT, Germany) - A major new scientific study has confirmed growing conviction that the world’s most widely used chemical herbicide, Monsanto Corporation’s Roundup is toxic and a danger to human as well as animal organisms.

The latest scientific research shows that Monsanto and the GMO agribusiness industry have systematically lied about the safety of their Roundup.

Monsanto Hired Mercenary Blackwater to Infiltrate Anti-GMO Groups

A spokesperson for Monsanto, reached by Scahill, first denied the relationship with Blackwater, but then admitted that Monsanto had paid Total Intelligence for intelligence reports...

(LONDON) - Documents reveal that Blackwater has been busy expanding its corporate reach.

The military contractor notorious for serious war crime violations, is providing intelligence services for agencies such as the Canadian Military, Netherlands Police and corporations like Monsanto.

Agent Orange Poisoning in Australian Veterans: They Suffer Too

I hope the American System is more realistic about the hideous danger of Dioxins. It is unfortunate that Dioxins have no immediate or acute toxicity but a particular Australian writer we recently published is correct; it is almost certainly the most deadly chemical produced by man.

(MOLALLA, Ore.) - Salem-news.com is very fortunate to have an Australian Veteran post this article for us and American Vietnam Veterans. It is one of the most educational but concise reviews I have seen on the subject.

I may have had among the first patients poisoned by the Dioxins in 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T in the world but I did not know it or about the Dioxins at the time.

Letter to the Editor Addresses Military Service and Agent Orange

An Editorial Assessment of Agent Orange and Vietnam Veterans as of August 2010

(SEATTLE) - It's comically painful to read and watch comments by some Vietnam Veterans and concerned folks on this and other issues relating to Agent Orange.

I'm a Vietnam Veteran who unknowingly bathed regularly in various dilutions of the sprayed AO chemical mixed with our shower water.

Agent Orange Update

The Senate Veterans' Affairs Committee has scheduled a hearing to examine the reasons and evidence used to add these three conditions to the list of presumptive diseases related to Agent Orange exposure.

(GARDEN GROVE, Calif.) - The President signed the War Supplemental yesterday. In that bill is the $13.4 billion in funding for the three newly designated presumptive diseases related to Agent Orange exposure.

What does this mean for veterans who have already filed and those waiting to file on these conditions?

Cluster Weapons and Agent Orange

Despite calls on the U.S. governments, lawsuits against the 35 U.S. Chemical companies headed by Monsanto and Dow Chemicals, they refuse to accept responsibility or to pay any compensation to the victims and their families.

(LONDON) - In a few weeks on August 1st The international ban on Cluster weapons will come into being.

While the ban is to be welcomed, for many it will have come too late, they have been either killed or injured.

Turncoat Senator Jim Webb`s Attempt to Take Down Shinseki Over Agent Orange Advocacy

Sen. James Webb, D-Va. has made it perfectly clear that he is NOT a friend of the Veteran, nor an advocate for us.

(DA NANG, Vietnam) - One person who appears to be on the side of Vietnam Veterans contaminated with the deadly Monsanto chemical Agent Orange, is Veterans Affairs Secretary Eric Shinseki.

Victims of Victims

“Agent Orange is not harmful or deadly to human beings” - said the liars

(DA NANG VIETNAM) - Saturday afternoon, the heat of the summer is upon us in Da Nang. The comforts I enjoyed back in the US still exist for me in some ways – air-conditioning, hot water, a decent meal.