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Pat Elder

  • Director, National Coalition to Protect Student Privacy
Saint Marys City
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Director, Military Poisons

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Pat Elder (pelder@militarypoisons.org) is the Director of Military Poisons, an organization that focuses on the U.S. military’s use of per-and poly fluoroalkyl substances, (PFAS) in a host of products and applications on bases in the U.S. and around the world. Pat has written 400 articles on PFAS. Many may be found at www.militarypoisons.org

Since 2019, Pat has been focused on the understudied role of PFAS exposure from food, especially fish, the primary pathway to human exposure for PFAS. H…

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What America Left Behind In Greenland

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By Pat Elder
| Popular Resistance
Above photo: Ken Bower. The Toxic Legacy of Eighty Years of U.S. Military Occupation. Part 2 of a 3-part series. Part 1 examined PFAS at Pituffik Space Base; while Part 3 will survey the appeals U.S. veterans have filed with the U.S. Veterans Administration, claiming cancers and disease as a result of their exposure to toxins in Greenland. “Greenland doesn’t really help Denmark.
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U.S. Israeli Bombing of Iran is Causing an Environmental Catastrophe

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By Pat Elder
| CoverAction Verified
[Source: cbsnews.com] On March 18, 2026, Israeli warplanes struck Iran’s South Pars gas field, igniting fires across one of the most critical energy complexes on Earth. The attack targeted infrastructure at the heart of the global natural gas system, sending flames through facilities that underpin a significant share of the world’s fertilizer production. The South Pars strike and the closure of the Strait of Hormuz is not just an energy story—it is also a story about the global food supply.
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From Karbala to Today: Beginning To Understand Shi’a Islam

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By Pat Elder
| Antiwar.com
by | Apr 2, 2026 | News | We must go back in history to understand the split between Sunni and Shi’a Islam before we can understand the animosity between predominantly Sunni nations like Saudi Arabia and Shi’a Iran today. Please suffer through the names and dates. This painting depicts the Battle of Karbala (680 CE), showing the small camp of Husayn ibn Ali and his followers on the left, surrounded by the much larger, highly organized forces of the Umayyad caliph Yazid.
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