Fancy a blast of electromagnetic radiation? The US Navy has plans to fly at least 2,900 “training exercises” up to 16 hours per day for 260 days over national parklands and forest in the Pacific Northwest. Their plan is to blast electromagnetic radiation at stations they position in these public “protected” lands as part of their electromagnetic warfare training against, most likely, Russia and China.
It doesn’t matter that electromagnetic radiation at the levels they will use is already known to cause miscarriage, breast cancer, brain tumors and cardiovascular problems in humans, or that it will scramble the bio-navigation abilities of over one billion birds using that area as part of their migration. The Navy has already said the war games will cause “no significant impact” on humans or animals, so apparently that’s that.
Yet there is resistance. An in-depth article I wrote for Truthout about the Navy’s planned war games is now being used by thousands of people who are outraged by the plans and aim to stop them. Possible lawsuits are being investigated and the Navy might not get its way after all. The expanse of US militarism can be halted by people just like you – with the help of the information Truthout provides.
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