Anti-DU fugures in the news.

Selected links to interviews, profiles, and articles by each individual are listed below.

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Ramsey Clark

http://www.thesunmagazine.org/bully.html
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ramsey_Clark
http://iacenter.org/
Cradle and all (interview with Ramsey Clark)

 

Maj. Doug Rokke

Doug Rokke
Photo: Charles Jenks

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doug_Rokke
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article4439.htm (video interview)
http://www.yesmagazine.org/article.asp?ID=594 (Interview by Sunny Miller)
http://www.lonestaricon.com/2006/Archives/09/news09.htm (interview)

 

Leuren Moret

Leuren Moret

Leuren Moret is one of the most active people in the anti-DU movement. She personally contacted this Webmaster to express enthusiasm about the site, showing that she is not afraid to debate the science of DU risk out in the open.

Please read her full bio
and an extended profile here.

Her bio can be found here.

Leuren Bookstore 081406.doc

http://www.traprockpeace.org/moret_25nov03.pdf

http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/moret.htm

http://www.sfbayview.com/081804/Depleteduranium081804.shtml (Her article in BayView)

http://www.lonestaricon.com/2006/Archives/09/news06.htm (an interview)

http://www.lonestaricon.com/2005/News/2005/19news03.htm (an earlier interview)

A recent article.

Links sent to this Webmaster by Moret:

Moret's testimony: http://www.mindfully.org/Nucs/2003/Leuren-Moret-ICT13dec03.htm
Best photos: http://www.life.com/Life/essay/gulfwar/gulf01.html
Best book: http://www.chugoku-np.co.jp/abom/uran/index_e.html
Best films: www.beyondtreason.com      www.bagdadrap.com     Blowin' in the Wind
                     INVISIBLE WAR: Depleted Uranium and the Politics of Radiation or here is another blurb

Best DU Conference: World Depleted Uranium Weapons Conference Hamburg, October 2003
Best articles: LONE STAR ICONOCLAST Crawford Texas "What is depleted uranium?"
                      LONE STAR ICONOCLAST "Have DU Will Travel" 3/3/06
                      SAN FRANCISCO BAY VIEW "Depleted uranium: A death sentence here and abroad"
                      "Washington's secret nuclear war" Al Jazeera (English archives)
                      WORLD AFFAIRS - The Journal of International Issues "Depleted Uranium: The Trojan Horse of Nuclear War"
                      VANITY FAIR - December 2004 “Weapons of Self-Destruction” By David Rose
Best Letters: Letter to Congressman McDermott from Leuren Moret
                      Letter to Editor/Opinion BATTLE CREEK ENQUIRER August 9, 2005 Depleted uranium is WMD by Leuren Moret
Articles: “The Queen's Death Star - Depleted Uranium Measured in British Atmosphere from Battlefields in the Middle East” by Leuren Moret
              " Weapons to die for... from that Pentagon Death Star and the University that poisoned the world" by Leuren Moret April 24, 2006
              Dr. Chris Busby Report on DU in British Atmosphere
Video: Leuren Moret to Therapists for Social Responsibility 9/11/05 “CONNECTING THE DOTS 9-11 Four Years Later: From the A-Bomb to Depleted Uranium and Beyond”
              Moret interview 1 by Dylan Avery, the director of "Loose Change" on fallout
              Moret interview 2 by Dylan Avery, the director of "Loose Change" on global diabetes epidemic


Dr. Marion Fulk

http://tracypress.com/content/view/6856/ Recent article on range testing controversy at Lawrence Livermore facility
http://tracypress.com/content/view/7479/ related
http://tinyurl.com/yr7gqr All related on Tracey Press site (local paper covering issue closely)
http://www.gnn.tv/H13348 this Webmaster's comments on this issue

Lawsuit Challenges Cross-Country Plutonium Shipments

http://www.ens-newswire.com/ens/feb2002/2002-02-13-06.asp "perfect weapon" quote

Marion Fulk, staff scientist, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, retired, brings five decades of technical knowledge to Tri-Valley CAREs as one of the group's volunteer technical advisors. A chemical physicist, Marion retired from LLNL in 1984 after 18 years there as a staff scientist specializing in chemical physics and material properties. At LLNL, Marion's research included but was not limited to the study of radioactive "rainout" from nuclear weapons test explosions. Marion's work at LLNL included numerous research projects involving plutonium and tritium, two radionuclides of special concern to Tri-Valley CAREs and the community (as these contaminants have shown up in local parks, rain, groundwater and agricultural products). From 1952 to 1967, Marion was employed by the National Bureau of Standards, Atomic Energy Commission Cryogenic Laboratory in Boulder, Colorado, where he worked on low temperature physics and the properties of materials, including radioactive materials. His background also includes University research in the fields of nuclear physics, chemistry and materials science, including work on neutron scattering cross-sections. Marion has lived in Livermore since 1966, and has been an advisor to Tri-Valley CAREs since 1988.     (this Bio is found here: List of Tri-Valley CAREs' Staff and Key Technical Experts (PDF) (HTML here)

Info on Fulk's "nano-particle theory" of how DU causes harm.

Dr. Asaf Durakovic
Dr. Asaf Durakovic
Photo: Felicity Arbuthnot

http://www.newint.org/issue305/interview.htm

http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article9322.htm

Publication search

Scott Ritter

Scott Ritter
Photo: New Internationalist

http://www.newint.org/issue316/secrets.htm

http://www.lonestaricon.com/2006/Archives/09/news15.htm (interview titled "I Love DU")

Dennis Kyne

Scott Ritter
Photo: Charles Duncan link

www.denniskyne.com
www.denniskyne.com/about/dennis/
http://charles.gnn.tv/blogs/5469/Interview_with_Dennis_Kyne

See video of Dennis playing guitar and sing his song, Ain't Going Back Again

Felicity Arbuthnot

Felicity Arbuthnot

http://arbuthnot4iraq.blogspot.com/ Her Blog
http://www.brusselstribunal.org/bios/Arbuthnot.htm Profile

http://www.iraqchat.com/felicity.htm (A tear-jerking report on Iraq, circa 1999)
http://www.newint.org/issue316/poisoned.htm
http://www.wsws.org/articles/2003/mar2003/arbu-m18.shtml

Congressman Jim McDermott
Washington State (Seattle area)
Jim McDermott

http://www.alternet.org/story/16414/
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/node/8592
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_McDermott

http://www.house.gov/mcdermott/pr060511b.shtml 2006 news!
Also, search for Bill HR 2410 (Session 109) on Thomas at: http://thomas.loc.gov/

http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?r108:H05MR3-0066:
A congressional record 5-minutes on DU

Dr. Helen Caldicott

Chris Busby

http://www.helencaldicott.com/index.htm Home page
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helen_Caldicott
http://www.nuclearpolicy.org/
www.psr.org - Physicians for Social Responsibility (winner of Nobel Peace Prize)

Activist Urges Depleted Uranium Clean-Up in Iraq May 2004 Reuters story.
2007 interview with Pasadena Weekly - She restates her concern over DU

http://beagle17.gnn.tv/ This Webmaster's blog entry on her.
http://www.informationclearinghouse.info/article17035.htm Video

The Dangers of a Nuclear War Authoritative analysis of the devastating impacts of a nuclear attack on Iran by Dr. Helen Caldicott (video) Global Research, July 28, 2006 Perdana Global Peace Forum
at: www.globalresearch.ca

October 21, 2006, Ottawa Citizen
The Way the World Ends With all the hype about North Korea, we're forgetting that the world is still staring down the barrels of thousands of U.S. and Russian ICBMs by Helen Caldicott

 

Dr. Chris Busby, Great Britain

Chris Busby

http://www.uraniumweaponsconference.de/speakers/busby_bio_en.pdf Profile
http://www.xs4all.nl/~stgvisie/VISIE/ahram-fe2.html

http://www.euradcom.org/ Busby is the Scientific Secretary of this private group affiliated with the European Green Party.

The "Aldermaston" report of DU clouds over England during Gulf War II

http://www.llrc.org/aldermastrept.pdf Busby's report
Article in The Times
Other media reportings of the same
Interview with Busby following media coverage of the report
Also, see the claims against this report in the Controversies section.

John Pilger

Joh Pilger

 

http://pilger.carlton.com/home (old)
http://www.johnpilger.com/ (new)
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Pilger

http://www.geocities.com/alabasters_archive/paying_the_price.html

http://www.bullfrogfilms.com/catalog/pay.html

Breaking the Silence (latest film)

 

Dan Fahey

 

Bio from his paper:
Dan Fahey earned a master.s degree in international relations from the Fletcher School of Law and Diplomacy at Tufts University, and a bachelor.s degree in government from the University of Notre Dame. He served in the U.S. Navy in 1990-91, including service in the Persian Gulf in July 1991, and graduated from the Navy.s Tomahawk cruise missile school, Phalanx Close-In Weapons System school, and Surface Warfare Officer.s School, among others. He served on the Board of Directors of the National Gulf War Resource Center from 1996-98, and he currently serves on the board of Veterans for Common Sense. He is a contributing author to .International Law and the Use of Depleted Uranium Munitions,. forthcoming 2003. He lives in Berkeley.
From: dumyths.pdf (Fahey's email is inside.)

http://www.llrc.org/du/subtopic/fahey.htm

"Facts, Myths and Propaganda In the Debate Over Depleted Uranium Weapons"
by Dan Fahey
Fahey's infamous self-published "balanced" report

And the Pentagon often overstates its case - in terms of DU effectiveness on the battlefield, or declaring the absence of health problems, according to Dan Fahey, an American veterans advocate who has monitored the shrill arguments from both sides since the mid-1990s.

"DU munitions are neither the benign wonder weapons promoted by Pentagon propagandists nor the instruments of genocide decried by hyperbolic anti-DU activists," Mr. Fahey writes in a March report, called "Science or Science Fiction: Facts, Myth and Propaganda in the Debate Over DU Weapons." (CSM, May 15, 2003)

The Emergence and Decline of the Debate Over Depleted Uranium Munitions 1991-2004,
by Dan Fahey, 20 June 2004
This outspoken piece rattled the feathers of anti-DU campaigners who see it as very damaging to their respectable cause. Many have disassociated with him.

Some activists who earlier had been credible also started to advance claims based more on assertion than proof. These activists, including some with science backgrounds, started to exploit the scientific uncertainties and decry DU as a “crime against God and humanity.” Cults of personality formed around activists who spread a dire gospel based on a blend of fact and fiction as they marched forward, every forward, in a messianic haze.
(p.15; Section 3.4 - Credibility of Activists)

The Dan Fahey Document Library

An amazing collection of primary sources on DU science and issues by Dan Fahey, "an American veterans advocate who has monitored the shrill arguments from both sides since the mid-1990s." (CSM, May 15, 2003)

Summary of Depleted Uranium Test Results For Iraq War Veterans
paper by Dan Fahey 17 March 2006

SUMMARY The use of armor-piercing ammunition made from depleted uranium (DU) during the war in Iraq has raised concerns about DU exposures among military personnel and civilians. Since 2003, the US Department of Defense (DoD) and Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) have tested more than 2,100 Iraq war veterans for DU exposure and the UK Ministry of Defence (MoD) has tested approximately 350 veterans. There have reportedly been few positive test results, but these results obscure problems with selection processes and testing methods. In this paper I summarize publicly available information about the use of DU munitions in Iraq, analyze differences between DoD/VA and MoD testing processes, review the results of government testing efforts, and discuss the significance of the testing processes and results.

Acritical response to this paper by James Salsman
QUOTE: "...I hope you will please join me in advocating that uranium contamination be measured by chromosome abberation analysis instead of urine isotope analysis."

http://www.alternet.org/story/14222/ A story on by Fahey Alternet (a Webmaster favorite source!)

Scott Peterson

Scott Peterson

Peterson is an author, a photographer for Getty Images and a regular contributer to the Christian Science Monitor who has taken a strong interest in depleted uranium. He is one of the few people who has actually taken a geiger counter to Iraq and proven first-hand that DU bullets are there and radiating at levels way beyond normal background.

His CSM articles can be found here.
or look on this site at the Media Coverage page
http://www.theconnection.org/photogallery/scott/ Afghanistan album
http://www.theconnection.org/shows/2000/05/20000509_b_main.asp Audio MP3: Scott Peterson on the War in Somalia, Sudan and Rwanda.
http://qtss.usip.org/video/2000/news_snooze/peterson.mov Video: Remarks by Peterson at the "News" versus "Snooze" workshop at the United States Institute of Peace, 2000-05-11
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scott_Peterson_(writer)

Some of Scott's recent 2006 photos from Lebanon can be seen here.


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