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Hundreds of Survivors of Bhopal Disaster Protest Obama India Visit
A group of 400 survivors of the Bhopal disaster have been protesting Obama's visit to India. The 1984 Bhopal industrial gas disaster left an estimated 15,000 people dead. The company, Union Carbide, is now a subsidiary of Dow Chemical. Dow has faced calls to clean up the contaminated site, increase compensation for victims, and fund studies to assess damages to the environment and public health. India has also demanded the extradition of former Union Carbide CEO Warren Anderson, who fled India shortly after his arrest in the disaster's aftermath.
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Show AllCorporate mass murder, aided by successive DemoPublican U.S. administrations and Congresses, all reliant on corporate money in our corrupt system of legal bribery, is STILL murder, no matter how it is spun.
Added to U.S. war crimes since 1943, when mass bombing of cities became U.S. policy, the bloody history of our nation over the last 70 years (at least) cannot be defended.
And we, the people, are impotent to change it.
It's only fair those responsbile should be brought to book, especially after all the nationalistic stance Americans kicked up about the BP oil spill, working themselves into a jingoistic lather about how this environmental damage could be perpetrated on their sacred shores by an evil foreign company. And if those at Bhopal are successful, perhaps all the relatives of victims of the Piper Alpha Oil disaster off the coast of Scotland some years back will get some redress to, as the US oil companies concerned still haven't been brought to account despite a national enquiry finding them guilty of gross negligence.
Good luck to the protestors
When the drone bomber said he agreed with Mahatma Gandhi that we need to become the change we want to see in the world; that statement had to be the epitome of hypocrisy! The consummate con man also said MLK had a great influence on his life. Hey Barry, I have news for you, if MLK was around today, you and your administration would have him labeled as a terrorist and he would have you labeled as a quisling of the greatest purveyor of violence in the world!
Obama is even more of an embarrassment on his trips abroad than Bush was, because of his blatant hypocrisy. He seems to think that because he is a person of color, the poor masses will believe any nonsense he spews. They have heard enough lies from their own leaders to believe his.
yeh, paul, when we heard this broadcast last friday and i heard nobel peace prize winner, obama, mention mahatma gandhi and martin luther king, i told my son, "i bet they're both spinning in their graves now."
and to the small retailers eking out a fiar living in their shops who fear the coming of the corporate monoply, i'd say you have every right to tremble.
The US overnment is still shielding those responsible
Poor Indian people. As if they hadn't had enough already, along comes Obama bearing "gifts" - I hope they realize that their government is selling their souls to the devil and all they're gonna get out of it is a t-shirt...nay, make that a fleet of drones in their own backyard.