How the Bush Administration Used the 2001 Anthrax Attacks to Manufacture Consent for the Iraq War

In a deep investigative piece, Abby and Robbie Martin explore the 2001 Anthrax Attacks––what led to them, why they happened, and how the Bush administration used them to manufacture consent for the illegal invasion of Iraq.

Abby Martin
Robbie Martin
作者 Abby Martin
和 Robbie Martin
American Anthrax

 ABBY MARTIN : 17 years ago, less than one month after the horrific attacks on September 11, 2001, weaponized anthrax was sent through the mail in a biological attack that stunned an already traumatized nation. The first American died from anthrax infection on October 5th. During the weeks that followed, letters sent through the US postal

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国际研究人员团队关注美国努力制造生物武器

现在是时候让美国停止躲避尴尬的问题并提供一些明确的答案。

Peter Korzun
作者 Peter Korzun

In 1969, US President Richard Nixon ended all offensive aspects of the US bio-weapons program — the first category of weapons prohibited by an international treaty. In 1975, the US ratified both the 1925 Geneva Protocol and the 1972 Biological Weapons Convention (BWC) — the international treaties outlawing biological warfare. But many reports from

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是的，美国对朝鲜使用了生物武器

在几乎摧毁朝鲜的过程中，美国试图传播腺鼠疫等疾病，投放了 32,500 吨凝固汽油弹，导致近 300 万人死亡。

David Swanson
作者 David Swanson
Bombs drop from a U.S. Air Force 3rd bomber wing B26 light bomber somewhere in North Korea. All told, the U.S. dropped 635,000 tons of bombs on Korea during the war, most of it in the North, including with 32,500 tons of napalm, March 18, 1953. (U.S. Air Force via AP)

Opinion -- It’s sort of silly that it matters. The United States bombed North Korea flat with ordinary, non-bioweapons bombs. It ran out of standing structures to bomb. People lived in caves, if they lived. Millions died, most of them from regular old non-scandalous but mass-murderous bombs (including, of course, Napalm which melts people but

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Venezuelan Protesters Using Human ‘Poop Bombs’ Against Police

The Venezuelan government has slammed the “poopootov cocktails” as a biochemical weapon and raised concerns over public health.

teleSUR
作者 teleSUR
A woman puts feces in a bucket to prepare "poopootovs."

In response to the Venezuelan right-wing opposition’s crude use of a “shittier” weapon this week dubbed “poopootov cocktails” — plastic bottles filled with human feces and water named for their likeness to Molotov cocktails — Venezuelan officials have spoken out, saying the demonstrators are breaking international treaties on biological and

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VIDEO: US Military Accidentally Ships Live Anthrax Spores To 9 States, South Korea

Last week, a Department of Defense lab mistakenly sent live anthrax samples to labs in 9 US states and one on a US base in South Korea. Consequently, 26 lab workers have begun post-exposure treatment.

Mint Press News Desk
作者 Mint Press News Desk

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