Extra! 1997 Ed. 2 – Update February

February 1, 1997

Racism Meets Spacism

Although you’d never know it from most U.S. media, that Russian Mars space probe carrying nearly a half-pound of deadly plutonium did not fall “harmlessly” into the sea in November 1996. It crashed into South America, breaking up into a fireball as it came down, according to eyewitnesses. When President Bill Clinton called Australian Prime […]

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