CENSORED IN 1978: NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS -- ATOMIC LEMONS The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a national public interest group, has for years been trying to tell the story of nuclear hazards to the American public with little success. Last year, the UCS released a report titled “Scientists’ Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort” which received little coverage. The report criticized the Nu ...

CENSORED IN 1994: DEADLY “MAD COW DISEASE” SPREADS TO NORTH AMERICA     A new and ghastly disease which turns the brain sponge-like and has been attacking dairy cows in England for years, has now appeared in North America. Nicknamed "Mad Cow Disease," bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE) has infected more than 120,000 cattle since it was discovered in 1985. BSE attacks the animal's central nervous system ...

CENSORED IN 1995: 1947 AEC MEMO REVEALS WHY HUMAN RADIATION EXPERIMENTS WERE CENSORED As the secrecy ban is finally lifted, the unethical, immoral, and illegal Cold War radiation experiments on unsuspecting humans by the Department of Defense are illuminated by a most remarkable document that has emerged virtually unnoticed. Dated April 17, 1947, an Atomic Energy Commission (AEC) memorandum, stamped SECRET ...

  CENSORED IN 1978: SPACE POLLUTION HITS HOME    Although it no longer makes headlines nor the six o’clock news, about twice a month somebody launches something into space. NASA’s current agenda alone calls for domestic communications satellites, weather satellites, new military communications and surveillance satellites, a satellite to test the magnetosphere, one to study propulsion principles, experimenta ...

CENSORED IN 1978: NUCLEAR POWER PLANTS -- ATOMIC LEMONS The Union of Concerned Scientists (UCS), a national public interest group, has for years been trying to tell the story of nuclear hazards to the American public with little success. Last year, the UCS released a report titled “Scientists’ Group Judges Federal Nuclear Safety Inspection Effort” which received little coverage. The report criticized the Nu ...

CENSORED IN 1977: ELECTRONIC SMOG     “Studies have linked sustained microwave exposure to headaches, dizziness, fatigue, irritability, loss of judgment, leukemia, cataracts, changes in the blood-brain barrier, heart trouble, and central nervous disorders.” Yet a cover-up exists. The food industry uses microwaves to roast peanuts and coffee beans, freeway call-boxes use microwaves, burglar alarms and automa ...

CENSORED IN 1985: THE GREEN RIVER MURDER CASE There are some serial murders, like the Hillside Strangler, the Atlanta Murders, and the Night Stalker, that attract nationwide media coverage and generate massive public outrage. There are others, like the Green River Murder Case, that don’t. The Green River Case is an on-going, unsolved (at this writing) murder case that started nearly four years ago, on July ...

CENSORED IN 1989: SOMETHING FOUL IN THE CHICKEN INDUSTRY AND THE USDA The number of cases of salmonella has risen to 2.5 million a year and led to an estimated 500,000 hospitalizations and 9,000 deaths. This national epidemic was caused by a massive leap in consumer demand for the “healthier food” of chicken and by a massive failure of the U.S. Department of Agriculture. While the chicken industry has grown ...

CENSORED IN 1981: LEARNING FROM THE PAST: THE GREAT MASS TRANSIT CONSPIRACY Our national dependency on the automobile has contributed to air pollution, the national trade imbalance, inflation, the deaths of 50,000 Americans annually, disabling injuries to millions more, and billions of dollars annually in lost wages and medical expenses. It also destroyed a mass transit system that was relatively clean, ene ...

CENSORED IN 1982: AMERICAN INDUSTRIALISTS TRADED WITH THE NAZIS Author Charles Higham, in a shocking expose of American corporate greed, has revealed a disgraceful if not criminal collaboration of some of America’s largest corporations with Nazi German not only before but during World War II. Higham documents his claims with information gathered through the National Archives and the Freedom of Information A ...