Episode 1229
The housing crisis is global / Deborah Potts
Sep 16 2020
From 1969 to 1993, and it found that working in uranium mines made Navajo men 28.6 times more likely to develop cancer. It's not really in dispute that this causes higher risks of cancer. It also causes all sorts of other health issues, kidney impairment, cardiovascular problems, and lung disease. Many of these issues can take a while to develop. Cancer can take 10 to 20 years to develop, which gives an opportunity for companies to undersell the risks. But then there's also another issue, which is environmental and public health harms from living in close proximity to unremediated waste. And this is most dangerous when people live long-term in close proximity to unremediated waste. It poses all sorts of dangerous to public health.
Sarah Lazare returns to This Is Hell! to talk about her new In These Times piece “They Worked Underground in the Uranium Mines. They've Been Surrounded by Death Ever Since”. Sarah investigates how the uranium industry left a trail of sickness and loss through Navajo territory while President Trump is pushing for another mining boom.
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Dec 2
A Trillion Dollar War Machine Keeps Americans Poor and at War / William Hartung & Ben Freeman
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Aug 27 2020
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Welcome to the Moment of Truth: the thirst that is also, paradoxically, the drink.
There’s a funny thing that happens when tyrannical rulers train their populations to accept untimely and unnecessary death as an everyday occurrence: the populace becomes ever more likely to rise up en masse and put their lives on the line battling those hired to police them and, eventually, making their way to the throats of the rulers. The same mistake the French and then the US military and its civilian chess-masters made throughout their colonial misadventures in Indochina are being made on the streets of every major and minor city in the world.
The people will win. Even against the other people, because the other people are worshipful tools of the tyrants. Against the cops, because we vastly outnumber the cops, and they seem to be nothing more than a subset of the worshipful tool people anyway. Against the military because, in the last analysis, even the military is divided between worshipful tools and real people. And once we get past all these tools, we’ll win against the rulers, because the only thing protecting them will be their technology, and they need people to make that technology work. And, being the people, we have those people on our side.
In short, the more they take from us, the less we have to lose. And when the people have nothing to lose, the people can’t lose.
The evil idiots who presume to be in charge of everything crossed the line ages ago. This week in Milwaukee they shot another unarmed, entirely innocent black man in front of his children, partially paralyzing him. In Glasgow, Scotland, a Ugandan refugee starved to death. The Greeks have been dumping refugees alive into the sea. Oh, and the death count from Covid-19 under Donald Dump’s distracted negligence is over 175,000. They’re coercing people to choose to work during the plague or be forced out onto the street. They’re dumping refugees in the desert to die. They’re putting as many poor people as they can into prisons and jails. They’re cutting down the few forests that aren’t on fire, depriving indigenous peoples of homes and livelihoods. They’re letting the food supply decay in the ruins of Iowa, as farmers go without aid, a policy of massacre-by-negligence which seems to have begun with the Dick Cheney administration’s response to Hurricane Katrina.
Crops are failing, empires are... read more