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Growing Broke: Forever Chemicals in America’s Heartland
This Emmy-nominated and Edward R. Murrow-winning documentary investigation tracks how forever chemicals are infiltrating our soil, tainting our water and making their way into our bodies.
Natasha Zouves speaks exclusively with activist Erin Brockovich about what chemical companies knew and didn’t tell us — and introduces us to the farmers destroyed by this, euthanizing their animals, dumping thousands of gallons of contaminated milk down the drain.
They want you to know this isn’t just their crisis. These chemicals linked with cancer are showing up in food, in drinking water, and in the blood of 97% of Americans. As Brockovich warns, “the storm is already here” — a man-made disaster in all 50 states, fueled by government failure and corporate silence.
did the government poison a city? inside the army’s secret tests in st. louis
The summer in St. Louis was relentless. The heat beat down on brick facades, the air heavy, clinging to 33 concrete towers that almost seemed to hold the sun captive. Children played outside, the shouts of their games echoing between high-rises.
And then the fog would come.
area 51 veterans dying as dod denies they were ever there
Dave Crete adds another name to a growing memorial list, now more than 400 in total — men and women he says he served with on a secretive range in the Nevada desert that encompasses Area 51.
Crete and his fellow veterans were hand-picked and tasked with top-secret work. They couldn’t even tell their wives what they did every day.
“We couldn’t even tell them the weather,” said Crete.
Now, Crete says he is discovering this group has more in common than their years of service those decades ago. Many are developing serious health issues, multiple tumors and, in too many cases, deadly cancers.
A group of these veterans are exclusively telling Natasha Zouves that they are unable to get the care and benefits they need because the Department of Defense refuses to acknowledge they were ever stationed in the desert. The DOD records sent to Veterans Affairs lists the same two words between asterisks in black and white: “DATA MASKED.”
“They keep us classified to protect themselves,” said Crete.