Articles by Dahr Jamail
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When the Ice Melts: The Catastrophe of Vanishing Glaciers
Dahr Jamail – The Guardian,
14 Jan 2019
8 Jan 2019 – As global temperatures rise, shrivelling glaciers and thawing permafrost threaten yet more climate disruption. How should we confront what is happening to our world? While western colonialist culture believes in “rights”, many indigenous cultures teach of “obligations” that we are born into: obligations to those who came before, to those who will come after, and to the Earth itself.
→ read full articleFukushima Radiation and the 2020 Tokyo Olympics
Dahr Jamail | EcoWatch – TRANSCEND Media Service,
24 Jul 2017
17 Jul 2017 – Former nuclear industry senior vice president Arnie Gunderson, who managed and coordinated projects at 70 U.S. atomic power plants, thinks it simply makes no sense to hold the Olympics in Japan. “Holding the 2020 Olympics in Japan is an effort by the Japanese government to make these ongoing atomic reactor meltdowns disappear from the public eye. I discovered highly radioactive dust on Tokyo street corners in 2016.” According to him and other nuclear experts, the crisis is even worse.
→ read full articleDestroying What Remains: How the U.S. Navy Plans to War Game the Arctic
Dahr Jamail - TomDispatch,
25 May 2015
The bottom line on all this is simple, if brutal. The Navy is increasingly focused on possible future climate-change conflicts in the melting waters of the north and, in that context, has little or no intention of caretaking the environment when it comes to military exercises.
→ read full articleIraq: War’s Legacy of Cancer
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
25 Mar 2013
Two US-led wars in Iraq have left behind hundreds of tonnes of depleted uranium munitions and other toxic wastes. Doctors in Fallujah are continuing to witness a steep rise in severe congenital birth defects, including children being born with two heads, children born with only one eye, multiple tumours.
→ read full articleGulf Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
27 Aug 2012
Eyeless shrimp and fish with lesions are becoming common, with BP oil pollution believed to be the likely cause. “The fishermen have never seen anything like this,” Dr Jim Cowan said. “And in my 20 years working on red snapper, looking at somewhere between 20 and 30,000 fish, I’ve never seen anything like this either.” Dr Cowan, with Louisiana State University’s Department of Oceanography and Coastal Sciences started hearing about fish with sores and lesions from fishermen in November 2010.
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Gulf of Mexico Seafood Deformities Alarm Scientists
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
30 Apr 2012
It’s almost two years since BP’s oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. Now, scientists say they have found deformities among seafood and a great decline in the numbers of marine life.
→ read full articleBP Goes to Court
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
27 Feb 2012
The largest environmental trial in US history begins February 27 [2012], as BP is sued for its 2010 oil spill disaster.
→ read full articleFallujah Babies: Under A New Kind of Siege
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
9 Jan 2012
While the US military has formally withdrawn from Iraq, doctors and residents of Fallujah are blaming weapons like depleted uranium and white phosphorous used during two devastating US attacks on Fallujah in 2004 for what are being described as “catastrophic” levels of birth defects and abnormalities.
→ read full articleWestern Oil Firms Remain As US Exits Iraq
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
9 Jan 2012
The end of the US military occupation does not mean Iraqis have full control of their oil. While the US military has formally ended its occupation of Iraq, some of the largest western oil companies, ExxonMobil, BP and Shell, remain.
→ read full articleWorld’s Oceans in Peril
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
21 Nov 2011
Climate change is causing our oceans to become increasingly acidic, threatening to alter life as we know it. What to do? Despite grave concerns there is something that can be done. If ocean 1.0 is the pristine natural ocean, 2.0 is the ocean we have now under the petroleum product regime of 100 years of use, and 3.0 is the future ocean, it can either be a dead ocean, or we can come up with some very innovative solutions that right now people aren’t even talking about.
→ read full articleNo End in Sight for Oil in the Gulf of Mexico
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
19 Sep 2011
Fifteen months after BP’s crippled Macondo Well in the Gulf of Mexico caused one of the worst environmental disasters in US history, oil and oil sheen covering several square kilometers of water are surfacing not far from BP’s well. Al Jazeera flew to the area on Sunday, September 11, and spotted a swath of silvery oil sheen, approximately 7 km long and 10 to 50 meters wide, at a location roughly 19 km northeast of the now-capped Macondo 252 well.
→ read full articleFukushima: It’s Much Worse Than You Think
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
20 Jun 2011
Scientific experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster to be far worse than governments are revealing to the public. “Fukushima is the biggest industrial catastrophe in the history of mankind,” Arnold Gundersen, a former nuclear industry senior vice president, told Al Jazeera.
→ read full articleBP Anniversary: Toxicity, Suffering and Death
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
25 Apr 2011
April 20, 2011 marks the one-year anniversary of BP’s catastrophic oil disaster in the Gulf of Mexico. At least 4.9 million barrels of BP’s oil would eventually be released into the Gulf of Mexico before the well was capped 87 days later. BP has used at least 1.9 million gallons of toxic dispersants to [try unsuccessfully to] sink the oil. Marine and wildlife biologists, toxicologists, and medical doctors have described the impact of the disaster upon the environment and human health as “catastrophic.” This is only the beginning of that what they expect to be an environmental and human health crisis that will likely span decades.
→ read full articleFukushima: A ‘Nuclear Sacrifice Zone’
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
11 Apr 2011
Some experts believe Japan’s nuclear disaster could become worse than Chernobyl. Japan’s Fukushima Daiichi nuclear power plant that was heavily damaged by the tsunami from the massive March 11 magnitude 9.0 earthquake continues to spread extremely high levels of radiation into the ocean, ground, and air.
→ read full articleClimate: Putting People over Money
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
21 Feb 2011
Facing climate change, a social movement in El Salvador fights mass flooding and the toxic burning of cane fields. While debate about whether climate change is real or not continues in the US, the world’s leading producer of CO2 emissions per capita, those already living with the effects, like Jose Domingo Cruz in El Salvador, don’t have time to debate.
→ read full articleIllnesses Linked to BP Oil Disaster
Dahr Jamail – Al Jazeera,
10 Jan 2011
Doctor attributes widespread sickness to toxic chemicals from the Gulf of Mexico catastrophe.
→ read full articleBP Dispersants ‘Causing Sickness’
Dahr Jamail - Aljazeera,
1 Nov 2010
Investigation by Al Jazeera online correspondent finds toxic illnesses linked to BP oil dispersants along Gulf coast.
→ read full articleOut of Sight, Out of Mind (Even when it’s not out of sight)
Dahr Jamail – TRANSCEND Media Service,
16 Aug 2010
New York Times: “The government is expected to announce on Wednesday [11 Aug 2010] that three-quarters of the oil from the Deepwater Horizon leak has already evaporated, dispersed, been captured or otherwise eliminated — and that much of the rest is so diluted that it does not seem to pose much additional risk of harm.” The Times was accommodating enough to lead the story with a nice photo of a fishing boat motoring across clean water with several birds in the foreground. This message was disseminated far and wide, via other mainstream media outlets like the AP and Reuters, effectively announcing to the masses that despite the Gulf of Mexico suffering the largest marine oil disaster in US history, most of the oil was simply “gone.” This kind of government cover-up is nothing new, of course.
→ read full articleTHE US MILITARY: A MINDSET OF BARBARISM (Part 1)
Dahr Jamail – Truthout,
7 Feb 2010
On December 27, in the eastern Kunar region of Afghanistan, ten Afghans, eight of whom were schoolchildren, were dragged from their beds and shot by US forces during a nighttime raid. Afghan government investigators said the eight students were aged from 11 to 17 years. This incident is but one example of countless atrocities US […]
→ read full articleTHE US MILITARY: A MINDSET OF BARBARISM (Part 2)
Dahr Jamail - Truthout,
7 Feb 2010
This is the second part of an interview with Dr. Stjepan Mestrovic, a Professor of Sociology at Texas A&M University who has written three books on US misconduct in Iraq: "The Trials of Abu Ghraib: An Expert Witness Account of Shame and Honor," "Rules of Engagement?: Operation Iron Triangle, Iraq" and "The ‘Good Soldier’ on […]
→ read full articleWHEN SCHOLARS JOIN THE SLAUGHTER
Dahr Jamail - Truthout,
26 Jan 2010
A core tenant of the Obama administration’s plans for "victory" in Iraq and Afghanistan is an increased reliance on counterinsurgency.As previously reported on this web site, the US military has sent shock troops – anthropologists, sociologists and social psychologists – with their own troops in both Iraq and Afghanistan, who also donned helmets and flak […]
→ read full articleCYBER RESISTANCE
Dahr Jamail,
24 Oct 2009
If technology has transformed warfare into a spectacle of shock and awe, its contribution to the cause of dissent has been no less remarkable. It has enabled solidarities across borders and facilitated networks and forums dedicated to impartial communication of ground realities beyond the sanitized projection of mainstream news. True, technological advances have not […]
→ read full articleTHE MYTH OF “AMERICA”
Dahr Jamail and Jason Coppola,
13 Oct 2009
Happy Columbus Day Columbus sailed the ocean blue in Fourteen Hundred and Ninety Two … May the spirit of adventure and discovery always be with you. Wishing you a great Columbus Day – Columbus Day greeting card To mark Columbus Day In 2004, the Medieval and Renaissance Center in UCLA published the final […]
→ read full articleAFGHANISTAN: WHERE EMPIRES GO TO DIE
Dahr Jamail,
19 Sep 2009
On September 7 the Swedish aid agency Swedish Committee for Afghanistan reported that the previous week US soldiers raided one of its hospitals. According to the director of the aid agency, Anders Fange, troops stormed through both the men’s and women’s wards, where they frantically searched for wounded Taliban fighters. Soldiers demanded that hospital […]
→ read full articleTHE COST OF SLUMBER
Dahr Jamail,
29 Oct 2008
Long before I discovered the mysterious mix of pain and relief that writing from the heart brings, I was pursuing a Masters in English Literature at Central Washington University in the small town of Ellensburg, Washington. I was broke, like most grad students, and supported myself by working for two individuals confined to […]
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