Agent Orange
04/20/2018
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By Lance D Johnson
A match made in Hell: Monsanto-Bayer merger gets the green light… farmers are worried, as they should be
As hundreds of lawsuits against Monsanto for personal injury and wrongful death move forward, German pharmaceutical company Bayer has been given the green light to acquire Monsanto in a deal surpassing $60 billion. The mega monopoly merger was approved by the U.S. Department of Justice in April. Instead of breaking monopolies up, the U.S. encourages monopolies […]
04/07/2017
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By Jayson Veley
40 Years later families are still fighting the deadly effects of Agent Orange
From heavy machine guns to anti-aircraft turrets, napalm strikes to the atomic bomb, mankind has developed some of the most damaging and destructive weapons ever imaginable. Perhaps one of the most deadly weapons of all time is Agent Orange, a chemical mixture known to cause tumors, rashes, birth defects, psychological symptoms and cancer. Named for […]
01/08/2017
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By S.D. Wells
New data suggest Agent Orange causing horrific third generation birth defects Vietnam vets are passing to their grandkids
What’s the “Agent Orange curse?” True story: As veterans of the Vietnam war die off from cancer and other diseases and disorders they got from the incredibly toxic defoliant Agent Orange, the nightmare is not over, because research is revealing their children and grandchildren, who were never exposed to the pesticide, have birth defects that […]
11/21/2016
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By D. Samuelson
The critical health damages of Agent Orange did not end with the Vietnam War
Agent Orange is a toxic herbicide combination of two very destructive chemicals – 2,4-D and 2,4,5-T. This deadly poison was used to destroy trees and ground cover during the Vietnam war between 1961 and 1972. The devastating effects of Agent Orange are still lingering in the skins and bodies of the military men and women who served, as […]
05/09/2016
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By Tara Paras
U.S. finally admits Agent Orange residue poisoned its own soldiers
After decades of denial, the Department of Veteran Affairs finally acknowledged that Monsanto’s Agent Orange, a herbicide sprayed across Vietnam during the war, was responsible for the health ailments of over 2,100 Air Force servicemen. Federal officials have agreed to release over $45 million in disability benefits to Air Force active duty personnel and reservists […]
04/26/2016
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By D. Samuelson
Over 95% of all endangered species’ existence threatened by not one, but two commonly used pesticides in the U.S.
The Environmental Protection Agency – just typing that name feels incongruent – proclaimed that we should keep our eyes on two harmful pesticides, plus one. The Guardian reports: “Almost all of the 1,700 most endangered plants and animals in the US are likely to be harmed by two widely used pesticides… Malathion, an insecticide registered for use in […]
11/13/2015
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By Norman Smith
The Agent Orange Review: A government newsletter devoted to its own war crimes
The United States Government Printing Office (USGPO) is the largest publisher in the world. It publishes almost everything the federal government does – with the exception of “classified” information, which isn’t published immediately, but is declassified and published after about a 30-year delay. Although USGPO may seem like a triumph of free speech, the fact is, […]
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