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US Military Access to Australian Bases Exceeds 100 Facilities: Analysts Warn of ‘Colonisation’ Risk

We have been thinking about American influence on Australian defence policy as a matter of penetration,

CENTCOM Strikes Three Iranian Crude Oil Tankers: One Vessel Destroyed, Two Permanently Disabled After IRGC Fires on US Navy Ships

U.S. Central Command struck three Iranian crude oil tankers on September 5, 2026, permanently disabling two and completely destroying a third, in what it described as retaliation for IRGC ballistic missile attacks on American Navy warships.

Iran War Ecocide: Toxic Contamination, Satellite Blackouts, and the Environmental Cost of Operation Epic Fury

U.S. and Israeli strikes during Operation Epic Fury have generated over 300 documented environmental harm incidents across 12 countries, emitted greenhouse gases equivalent to Iceland’s annual output in just two weeks, and blanketed Tehran’s 9 million residents in toxic black rain — all while a U.S.-directed satellite blackout limits independent verification of the full damage.

Jonathan Mann

Jonathan Mann

Jonathan Mann, age 51, died September 1998 in SwissAir Flight 111 over Canada. He was founding director of the World Health Organization's global Aids program and founded Project SIDA in Zaire, the most comprehensive Aids research effort in Africa at the time, and in...

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Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D.

Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D.

Elizabeth A. Rich, M.D., age 46, died on July 10, 1998 in a traffic accident while visiting family in Tennessee. She was an associate professor with tenure in the pulmonary division of the Department of Medicine at CWRU and University Hospitals of Cleveland. She was...

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Sidney Harshman

Sidney Harshman

Sidney Harshman, age 67, died oSidney Harshman, age 67, died on December 25, 1997, from complications of diabetes. He was a professor of microbiology and immunology. He was the world's leading expert on staphylococcal alpha toxins.Sidney Harshman, age 67, died on...

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Dr. C. Bruton

Dr. C. Bruton

Dr. C. Bruton, a CJD (Creutzfeldt–Jakob Disease) specialist -- who had just produced a paper on the a new strain of CJD -- was killed in a car crash before his work was announced to the public. Purdey speculates that Bruton might have known more than what was revealed...

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Dr. Tsunao Saitoh

Dr. Tsunao Saitoh

Dr. Tsunao Saitoh, age 46, died on May 7, 1996. Shot and killed, along with his young daughter, in La Jolla, California. He was dead behind the wheel of the car, the side window had been shot out, and the door was open. His daughter appeared to have tried to run away...

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Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi

Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi

Dr. Jawad Al Aubaidi died in 1994. A graduate doctor from Cornell, he was hired to head the mycoplasma biowar research project. One of Dr. Aubaidi's projects was filling payloads of scud missiles with mycoplasma strains. In 1995, Dr. Aubaidi was murdered by the...

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Jose Trias

Jose Trias

Jose Trias died on May 19, 1994. Trias and his wife were murdered in their Chevy Chase, Maryland home. They met with a friend of theirs, a journalist, before the day of their murder and told him of their plan to expose HHMI (Howard Hughes Medical Institute) funding of...

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