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Center for Research on Globalization
November 12, 2017
26. “Republican Senator: Bring Back the Draft,” World Net Daily, 4-20-04. 27. “Pentagon's Uranium Denial,” New York Daily News, 4-27-04; “Pentagon: Uranium Didn't harm N.Y. Unit,” Associated Press, 5-3-04. “Pentagon-Depleted Uranium No Health Risk,” Dr. Doug Rokke; 3-15-03. Dr. Rokke was an U.S.Ãâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
August 19, 2017
The Rantoul Public Library will host a Solar Eclipse Program for all ages presented by physicist Doug Rokke. It's from noon to 2 p.m. at the library, 106 W. Flessner. Rokke said he will use hands-on methods to explain how to use telescopes, glasses or a pinhole camera safely. Bring a box to make a shadowÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 12, 2017
He says that people in the American military and intelligence are “freaking out” about this, because Trump has completely misrepresented the facts regarding what happened. Captain Doug Rokke – former Director of the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium Project and an expert on chemical weapons – wrote toÃâà...
Honolulu Civil Beat
February 21, 2017
Doug Rokke, a retired Army major who served on the DU Assessment team during the Gulf War says, “Once DU is released into the environment, it will never be safe at all, no matter what is done.” According to Rokke, “DOD documents confirm that a broad spectrum of potential health effects include: lungÃâà...
Big Island Video News
February 11, 2017
Even the former director of the U.S. Army's Depleted Uranium Project, Major Doug Rokke warns of the dangers today.” Dr. Lorrin Pang, MD – a state health official on Maui – has said, speaking in his personal capacity, that inhaled DU oxide particles are the most deadly form of radiation. “ConsideringÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
February 26, 2016
Dr. Doug Rokke, a retired major who served as the director of the US Army Depleted Uranium Project in the mid-90s, and a specialist in uranium clean-up efforts, has been an advisor for DU science and health to the Centers for Disease Control, US Institute of Medicine, Congress, and the DOD. Rokke hasÃâà...
Al-Arabiya
August 16, 2015
The former head of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project, Doug Rokke, who become a U.S. army whistleblower, blamed these toxic exposures on the “deliberate actions” of the U.S. military in an address he gave in 2003. Rokke said that “Department of Defense officials still claim that alarms were allÃâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
May 27, 2015
Doug Rokke, a member of the Chanute Restoration Advisory Board, said he has concerns for the safety of residents of that area over the particulate debris that will be created during demolition. "It's airborne," Rokke said. "We have people living within a few hundred yards." Howard said the asbestos contentÃâà...
Champaign/Urbana News-Gazette
August 31, 2013
RANTOUL — A member of the Chanute Restoration Advisory Board told those attending this month's quarterly meeting that Agent Orange was present at one time on base. Doug Rokke — a retired Army major who served in Vietnam and the first Gulf War and obtained a Ph.D. in education from theÃâà...
Center for Research on Globalization
April 15, 2011
Dr. Doug Rokke, the ex-director of the Pentagon's Depleted Uranium Project, says there is no way to totally decontaminate an area hit with uranium. Serious long-term health problems caused by the use of depleted uranium in bombs can range from cancer to leukemia and genetic mutations. The UnitedÃâà...
