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When the US Used Cancer as a Weapon via Counterpunch

By Jeffrey St. Clair At the close of the first Gulf War, Saddam Hussein was denounced as a ferocious villain for ordering his retreating troops to destroy Kuwaiti oil fields, clotting the air with poisonous clouds of black smoke and … Continue reading

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Are US munitions to blame for Basra birth defects? via Der Spiegel

It sounds at first as if the old man were drunk. Or perhaps as though he had been reading Greek myths. But Askar Bin Said doesn’t read anything, especially not books, and there is no alcohol in Basra. In fact, … Continue reading

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