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
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و 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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International Team of Researchers Concerned Over US Efforts to Create Biological Weapons

The time is right to ask the US to stop dodging awkward questions and provide some clear answers.

Peter Korzun
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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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نعم، استخدمت الولايات المتحدة أسلحة بيولوجية ضد كوريا الشمالية

في إطار هلاكها الوشيك لكوريا الشمالية، حاولت الولايات المتحدة نشر أمراض مثل الطاعون الدبلي، وأسقطت 32500 طن من النابالم، وقتلت ما يقرب من 3 ملايين شخص.

David Swanson
بواسطة 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.

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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.

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