AARON VILES of the New Orleans-based Gulf Restoration Network [ healthygulf.org ] details the continuing ecocidal effects on sealife, agriculture and human health of the 20 April 2012 BP massive oil spill and unprecedented underwater use of Correxit dispersant; and
DAVID VALENTINE, PhD, in a contemporaneous interview on his NSF gulf cruise documenting the Gulf of Mexico's methane elevation and oxygen depletion consequent to the BP spill; and
CHRIS KROMM, executive director of the Institute for Southern Studies [ www.southernstudies.org ], discusses the Obama administration and Congress' nonchalance over the BP spill, and the ISS' new report, "Troubled Waters: Two Years After the BP Oil Disaster, a Struggling Gulf Calls for National Leadership for Coastal Recovery"; and
THELMA PETERSON's lament for the Gulf of Mexico, "I Am At War"; and
US MILITARY AND SS SEX IN COLOMBIA:
A review of the deeper US military occupations and activities in Columbia that set the context for the recent Secret Service sex and booze scandal in Cartagena, Colombia, with:
SUSANA PIMIENTO, board member of the Fellowship[ For Reconciliation, [ forusa.org ] on US abuse of Colombian women in Cartagena, from where she has just returned as a participant in the "People's Summit"; and
SEBASTIAN PATINO, a Colombian draft resister on a speaking tour of the United States [ forusa.org ]; and
Contemporaneous coverage of a second Gulf oil leak in April, 2010, with JOHN AMOS, founder and president of SkyTruth [ skytruth.org ].
Anchor: Robert Knight Producer: Thiago Barrozo Engineer: Michael G. Haskins Origin: WBAI/Pacifica
5OCS - BP Spill Effects - US Sex and Occupation of Colombia