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Agent Orange and Our Legacy of Chemical Warfare

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Posted on Sep 9, 2011
Wikimedia Commons / U.S. National Agricultural Library

U.S. Air Force C-123s at work over Vietnam during the war.

This week on Truthdig Radio, in collaboration with KPFK, we hear about Agent Orange and the continuing devastation from America’s chemical warfare; the Justice Department’s recent move to hold big banks accountable; the efforts of a pioneering Spanish broadcaster; and the economic outlook on jobs.

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Segments:

Intro with Nomi Prins on Wall Street

Rubén Luengas on broadcast media

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Fred Wilcox on Agent Orange

Sylvia Alegretto on Jobs


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By Mark Shapiro, October 14, 2011 at 4:44 am Link to this comment
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Readers may wish to visit the ‘Agent Orange Action
Group’ website at http://www.aoag.org and also the
excellent piece below. Be sure to scroll down and read
the comments following the article! Justice for the
Victims of Agent Orange! 
http://foodfreedom.wordpress.com/2011/07/08/monsantos-
agent-orange-being-used-to-clear-brazils-rainforest/

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By John Poole, September 10, 2011 at 5:31 pm Link to this comment
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A Holocaust can occur because people are still unprepared to accept that some
humans are capable of the most monstrous behavior beyond imagining. We’re due
for holocausts which will dwarf what happened to the Jews in WWII courtesy of
companies who will put profit ahead of any concern for the health and welfare of
fellow humans. The biochemical companies will not care if tens of millions are
sickened, compromised or die early deaths from faulty production.

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By Rixar13, September 9, 2011 at 4:17 pm Link to this comment

Agent Orange has injured and killed American Vietnam Veterans… Hold Banksters accountable….!

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By prisnersdilema, September 9, 2011 at 3:03 pm Link to this comment

Yes, we murdered millions in Vietnam with herbacides…

And now we’re doing the same here in Amerika, murdering millions of men women and children, with similar Herbacides…

We also have genetically altered our food to release herbacides, some of which can become part of our gut flora, and continually release herbacides inside of us.

The companies that produce those herbacides, knowingly submitted fraudulent data to the USDA, who doesn’t seem to mind much. Maybe that’s because bio tech stocks would suffer too much if it was revealed, how many miscarrages, Lymphomas, and leukemias those herbacides cause.

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By EmileZ, September 9, 2011 at 12:31 pm Link to this comment

Wonderful broadcast as usual. This is my favorite part of truthdig.

Bring back Luengas if possible, and thanks especially for the Wilcox segment. I was born right about the time the Vietnam war ended and not having lived through it I often have a hard time putting the fragments I pick up here and there into a larger sequence of events. I will certainly look this guy up.

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